Hack history / 2023 / Hack or exploit
DEUS Finance
Hack or exploit on May 5, 2023 · Arithmetic Error
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 3 SOURCES
Lost
$6.5M
sources: $6.5M to $7M
Returned
$5.5M
85% of the loss, as a source states it
Rank
#400
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
DEUS Finance lost $6.5M across Arbitrum, BSC, and Ethereum when an attacker exploited a parameter ordering error in the DEI stablecoin's burnFrom function, reversing approval relationships in the allowances mapping.
Details
- Date
- May 5, 2023
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Arithmetic Error
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Arbitrum, BNB Chain, Ethereum
- Audit (rekt.news)
- unaudited
After the theft
- Recovered or frozen
- $5.5M
“$7.0M taken, $1.5M after recovery or freezing” (Web3 Is Going Great)
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "DEUS Finance hack, May 5, 2023: $6.5M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht82ae13b988/ (data as of 2026-10-31).