Hack history / 2024 / Hack or exploit
Sonne Finance
Hack or exploit on May 14, 2024 · Donation Attack
ATTACK TX CONFIRMED ON CHAININ REVIEWSOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 5 SOURCES
Lost
$20M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#207
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
On May 15, 2024, Sonne Finance on Optimism was exploited for $20M through a donation attack. Market setup was split into separate timelock transactions, allowing the attacker to control execution order and manipulate collateral factors in a newly-created market before protective guards were applied.
In review: possible duplicate within one source.
Details
- Date
- May 14, 2024
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Donation Attack
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Optimism, Ethereum
- Audit (rekt.news)
- yAudit
Related incidents
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Sonne Finance hack, May 14, 2024: $20M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht98dc22626b/ (data as of 2026-10-31).