Hack history / 2025 / Hack or exploit
Venus Protocol user exploited for $13.5 million; most funds later recovered
Hack or exploit on Sep 2, 2025
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$13.5M
dollars at the time
Returned
$11.4M
84% of the loss, as a source states it
Rank
#250
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
No description from DefiLlama or SlowMist; see the sources below.
Details
- Date
- Sep 2, 2025
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- not stated
- How in
- Other
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- BNB Chain
After the theft
- Recovered or frozen
- $11.4M
“$13.5M taken, $2.1M after recovery or freezing” (Web3 Is Going Great)
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Venus Protocol user exploited for $13.5 million; most funds later recovered hack, Sep 2, 2025: $13.5M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/hta2aa39b816/ (data as of 2026-10-31).