Hack history / 2021 / Hack or exploit
Merlin
Hack or exploit on Jun 29, 2021 · Arithmetic Error
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 3 SOURCES
Lost
$330K
sources: $300K to $330K
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,285
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
Merlin was exploited for $330K when an attacker deployed a fake Alpaca-BNB vault and sent 1000 BNB to trick the contract into inflating reward calculations.
Details
- Date
- Jun 29, 2021
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Arithmetic Error
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- BNB Chain
- Audit (rekt.news)
- unaudited
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Merlin hack, Jun 29, 2021: $330K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht8d660e0bb7/ (data as of 2026-10-31).