Hack history / 2022 / Hack or exploit
Beanstalk
Hack or exploit on Apr 16, 2022 · Flashloan Governance Attack
ATTACK TX CONFIRMED ON CHAINSOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 5 SOURCES
Lost
$182M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#34
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
An attacker flashloaned $1B+ from Aave, Uniswap, and SushiSwap to gain 2/3 governance voting power and execute malicious proposals (Bip18 to drain the protocol, Bip19 to donate to Ukraine as cover), stealing $181M in non-Bean assets.
Details
- Date
- Apr 16, 2022
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Flashloan Governance Attack
- How in
- Price, oracle and governance
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Ethereum
- Audit (rekt.news)
- unaudited
Related incidents
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Beanstalk hack, Apr 16, 2022: $182M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht5431b3747f/ (data as of 2026-10-31).