Hack history / 2023 / Hack or exploit
OpenSea
Hack or exploit on May 16, 2023 · Royalty Vulnerability
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
Alexpf.eth, co-founder and CEO of NFT exchange EZswap, tweeted: "OpenSea is suspected of having a royalty loophole. Recently, OpenSea seems to have changed the owner's identification standard, which means that NFT projects cannot set or change royalties. This error is very serious. Seriously, it's been around for 2 days."
Details
- Date
- May 16, 2023
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Royalty Vulnerability
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- not stated
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "OpenSea hack, May 16, 2023: undisclosed lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht5b461ee3e5/ (data as of 2026-10-31).