Hack history / 2024 / Hack or exploit
ALEX
Hack or exploit on May 15, 2024 · Phishing
IN REVIEWSOURCES DISAGREE ON DATE OR LOSS · 4 SOURCES
Lost
$4.3M
sources: $4.3M to $6.3M
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#500
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
On May 15-16, 2024, Alex Lab's XLink bridge private key was compromised through a phishing attack attributed to state-sponsored actors. Attackers transferred approximately $300,000 in BTC, $3.3M in stablecoins, and $75,000 in SKO tokens across the bridge.
In review: possible duplicate within one source.
Details
- Date
- May 15, 2024
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Phishing
- How in
- Phishing and scams
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Stacks, Bitcoin, BNB Chain, Ethereum
- Audit (rekt.news)
- CoinFabrik
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "ALEX hack, May 15, 2024: $4.3M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht4fd4a4e3da/ (data as of 2026-10-31).