Hack history / 2026 / Hack or exploit
Moonwell Lending
Hack or exploit on Aug 27, 2026 · Spot Price Manipulation
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 3 SOURCES
Lost
$8.7M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#329
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
The attacker manipulated the spot price of the relatively illiquid MAMO token, increasing the collateral value recognized by Moonwell. The attacker used the inflated MAMO collateral to borrow liquid assets including cbBTC, ETH/WETH, USDC, and wstETH, leaving the lending markets with undercollateralized positions
Details
- Date
- Aug 27, 2026
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Spot Price Manipulation
- How in
- Price, oracle and governance
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Base, Ethereum
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Moonwell Lending hack, Aug 27, 2026: $8.7M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht7baf27bba3/ (data as of 2026-11-01).