Hack history / 2023 / Hack or exploit

WEEB

Hack or exploit on May 10, 2023 · Price Manipulation

ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE

Lost

$29K

dollars at the time

Returned

none listed

as the sources state it

Rank

#2,056

among thefts by dollars lost

What happened

The WEEB project was attacked by price manipulation. The hacker used the performUpkeep function in the WEEB token to burn the balance of a large number of WEEB tokens in the pair, thereby increasing the price of WEEB and making a profit of 16 ETH.

Details

Date: May 10, 2023
Kind: Hack or exploit
Method: Price Manipulation
How in: Price, oracle and governance
Target: not stated
Chains: Ethereum

Reported by

SlowMist Hacked ↗

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SwanBluechip, "WEEB hack, May 10, 2023: $29K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht4989dcf975/ (data as of 2026-10-31).

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