Hack history / 2023 / Hack or exploit
ElephantStatus
Hack or exploit on Dec 6, 2023 · Spot Price Manipulation
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 2 SOURCES
Lost
$165K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,555
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
ElephantStatus was exploited via a flashloan-funded price manipulation attack. The attacker borrowed BUSD, swapped for WBNB, and manipulated the liquidity pool to artificially inflate WBNB price, enabling unintended extraction of value.
Details
- Date
- Dec 6, 2023
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Spot Price Manipulation
- How in
- Price, oracle and governance
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- BNB Chain
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "ElephantStatus hack, Dec 6, 2023: $165K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht98664b34e1/ (data as of 2026-10-31).