Hack history / 2025 / Hack or exploit
WebKeyDAO
Hack or exploit on Mar 16, 2025 · Improper Access Control
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$73K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,823
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
WebKeyDAO's buy() function lacked proper access controls, allowing an attacker to purchase WKEYDAO tokens at artificially low prices set via an unprotected setTokenInfo() call. The attacker exploited this to acquire tokens at 1/10th market price and immediately sold them on DEX for profit, limited only by a built-in 67-token sale cap.
Details
- Date
- Mar 16, 2025
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Improper Access Control
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- Token
- Chains
- BNB Chain
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "WebKeyDAO hack, Mar 16, 2025: $73K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htbaa40e5862/ (data as of 2026-10-31).