Hack history / 2024 / Hack or exploit
GeniusAI
Hack or exploit on May 5, 2024 · Social Account Takeover
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 3 SOURCES
Lost
$1.3M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#855
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
Gnus.AI suffered a $1.27M exploit on May 5, 2024 when a Discord breach exposed the team's deployment wallet private key. The attacker minted 100M fake GNUS tokens on Fantom, bridged them to Ethereum, and sold them into Uniswap pools, crashing the price 95%.
Details
- Date
- May 5, 2024
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Social Account Takeover
- How in
- Phishing and scams
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Fantom, Ethereum, Polygon
Related incidents
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "GeniusAI hack, May 5, 2024: $1.3M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht520ca43867/ (data as of 2026-10-31).