Hack history / 2023 / Hack or exploit
Swap-LP
Hack or exploit on May 20, 2023 · Swap Logic Flaw
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 2 SOURCES
Lost
$1.1M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#896
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
Swap-LP's factory contract contained a low-level function vulnerability that an attacker exploited to manipulate liquidity pools. The attacker extracted approximately $1.1M (609 ETH) by calling restricted factory functions to drain value from the protocol's liquidity.
Details
- Date
- May 20, 2023
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Swap Logic Flaw
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- BNB Chain
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Swap-LP hack, May 20, 2023: $1.1M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht296f00b178/ (data as of 2026-11-01).