Hack history / 2024 / Hack or exploit
FireToken
Hack or exploit on Oct 1, 2024 · Spot Price Manipulation
ATTACK TX CONFIRMED ON CHAINSOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 3 SOURCES
Lost
$20K
sources: $20K to $24K
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#2,130
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
FireToken's transfer function automatically burned tokens sent to Uniswap pools and immediately updated reserve balances, allowing attackers to artificially inflate ETH price by reducing FireToken reserves, then repeatedly swapped FireTokens for overpriced ETH.
Details
- Date
- Oct 1, 2024
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Spot Price Manipulation
- How in
- Price, oracle and governance
- Target
- Token
- Chains
- Ethereum
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "FireToken hack, Oct 1, 2024: $20K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/hta16b4577f7/ (data as of 2026-10-31).