Hack history / 2021 / Hack or exploit
Bunny
Hack or exploit on May 19, 2021 · Spot Price Manipulation
ATTACK TX CONFIRMED ON CHAINSOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 5 SOURCES
Lost
$45M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#113
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
On May 19, 2021, PancakeBunny was exploited via flashloan-enabled oracle manipulation. Attacker manipulated USDT/BNB and BUNNY/BNB exchange rates to mint 7M BUNNY and steal 114,631 WBNB (~$45M), crashing BUNNY price.
Details
- Date
- May 19, 2021
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Spot Price Manipulation
- How in
- Price, oracle and governance
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- BNB Chain
- Audit (rekt.news)
- unaudited
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Bunny hack, May 19, 2021: $45M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht683295a0f7/ (data as of 2026-11-01).