Hack history / 2024 / Hack or exploit
Wilder World
Hack or exploit on Mar 16, 2024 · Private Key Leakage
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 2 SOURCES
Lost
$1.8M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#733
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
The deployer wallet of the NFT marketplace Wilder World was attacked, and ownership was transferred to the attacker. Following a malicious upgrade, the attacker withdrew WILD and MEOW tokens and converted them into approximately $1.8 million.
Details
- Date
- Mar 16, 2024
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Private Key Leakage
- How in
- Keys, accounts and infrastructure
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- Ethereum
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Wilder World hack, Mar 16, 2024: $1.8M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht2b022e934f/ (data as of 2026-10-31).