Hack history / 2020 / Hack or exploit
Vether
Hack or exploit on Jul 1, 2020 · Improper Access Control
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$450K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,192
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
An attacker paid a 128 Vether exclusion fee and exploited an access control flaw in the V3 contract to gain control of all remaining Vether. They claimed 900,000 Vether and liquidated 150,000 on Uniswap for approximately 15 ETH.
Details
- Date
- Jul 1, 2020
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Improper Access Control
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Ethereum
Reported by
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Vether hack, Jul 1, 2020: $450K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht3bfdfdda17/ (data as of 2026-10-31).