Hack history / 2022 / Hack or exploit
SpiritSwap V3
Hack or exploit on May 14, 2022 · DNS Hijack
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 3 SOURCES
Lost
$18K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#2,159
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
Attacker socially engineered a GoDaddy employee to hijack SpiritSwap's domain, then deployed a phishing site with modified swap parameters. Before detection and shutdown on May 14, ~$18K was extracted (from 252 BNB total redirected).
Details
- Date
- May 14, 2022
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- DNS Hijack
- How in
- Keys, accounts and infrastructure
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Fantom
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "SpiritSwap V3 hack, May 14, 2022: $18K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht5e0e0cd299/ (data as of 2026-10-31).