Hack history / 2023 / Hack or exploit

Thales

Hack or exploit on Aug 20, 2023 · Information Leakage

ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE

Lost

$35K

dollars at the time

Returned

none listed

as the sources state it

Rank

#2,011

among thefts by dollars lost

What happened

Derivatives marketplace Thales issued an announcement that a core contributor’s PC/Metamask had been hacked and that some hot wallets acting as casual deployers ($25k) or admin bots ($10k) had been compromised. Do not interact with any Thalesmarket contracts on the BNB Chain and revoke any contracts that are pending approval. All funds are safe on Optimism, Arbitrum, Polygon and Base. Thales said that due to the attack, support for the BSC will be officially dropped.

Details

Date: Aug 20, 2023
Kind: Hack or exploit
Method: Information Leakage
How in: Keys, accounts and infrastructure
Target: not stated
Chains: BNB Chain

Reported by

SlowMist Hacked ↗

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Cite this page

SwanBluechip, "Thales hack, Aug 20, 2023: $35K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht34f12d3796/ (data as of 2026-10-31).

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