Hack history / 2026 / Hack or exploit
CoW Swap
Hack or exploit on Apr 14, 2026 · DNS Hijack
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 3 SOURCES
Lost
$1.2M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#866
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
The cow.fi domain was hijacked through social engineering at the .fi domain registrar. For 4.5 hours, users were redirected to a pixel-perfect phishing clone where they unknowingly signed malicious transactions draining funds.
Details
- Date
- Apr 14, 2026
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- DNS Hijack
- How in
- Keys, accounts and infrastructure
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Ethereum
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "CoW Swap hack, Apr 14, 2026: $1.2M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht7921d5cafd/ (data as of 2026-10-31).