Hack history / 2017 / Hack or exploit
Stellar
Hack or exploit on Apr 1, 2017 · Inflation
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
undisclosed
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
not ranked
collapses, frauds and later news are not ranked
What happened
Messari, a cryptocurrency research organization, announced on the 27th that Stellar's blockchain protocol had an inflation loophole in April 2017. An attacker used the loophole to create 2.25 million XLM (worth about 10 million US dollars). This bug was discovered by the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) and patched after the accident.
Details
- Date
- Apr 1, 2017
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Inflation
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- not stated
Reported by
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Stellar hack, Apr 1, 2017: undisclosed lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht45cf6e710f/ (data as of 2026-10-31).