Hack history / 2026 / Hack or exploit
Truebit
Hack or exploit on Jan 8, 2026 · Arithmetic Error
ATTACK TX CONFIRMED ON CHAINSOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 5 SOURCES
Lost
$26.4M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#172
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
Truebit Protocol suffered $26.44M exploit on January 8, 2026 from integer overflow in token purchase logic (Solidity 0.6.10 unpatched). Attacker minted TRU at negligible cost and sold to bonding-curve for ~$26M; TRU crashed 99.9%.
Details
- Date
- Jan 8, 2026
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Arithmetic Error
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Ethereum
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Truebit hack, Jan 8, 2026: $26.4M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht8225534f29/ (data as of 2026-10-31).