Hack history / 2020 / Hack or exploit
WLEO
Hack or exploit on Oct 11, 2020 · Infinite Mint
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 2 SOURCES
Lost
$42K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,967
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
Attacker gained access to the WLEO token contract's issuing mechanism and minted unlimited tokens. The attacker swapped the minted WLEO for ETH on Uniswap's liquidity pool, extracting ~$42K worth of Ethereum from the pool and causing a complete rug pull.
Details
- Date
- Oct 11, 2020
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Infinite Mint
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Ethereum
Reported by
Related incidents
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "WLEO hack, Oct 11, 2020: $42K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht7439da05bf/ (data as of 2026-10-31).