Hack history / 2024 / Hack or exploit
WXETA
Hack or exploit on Sep 15, 2024 · Uninitialized Proxy
ATTACK TX CONFIRMED ON CHAINSOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 2 SOURCES
Lost
$110K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,683
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
On September 16, 2024, an attacker reinitialized the WXETA contract through its unguarded initialize function, granted themselves minting permissions, and drained USDT/WXETA liquidity pools for $110,000.
Details
- Date
- Sep 15, 2024
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Uninitialized Proxy
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Ethereum, BNB Chain
Reported by
Related incidents
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "WXETA hack, Sep 15, 2024: $110K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht26fcc4e1e8/ (data as of 2026-10-31).