Hack history / 2024 / Hack or exploit
Banana Gun
Hack or exploit on Sep 19, 2024 · Frontend Compromise
IN REVIEWSOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 4 SOURCES
Lost
$3M
dollars at the time
Returned
$3M
100% of the loss, as a source states it
Rank
#589
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
On September 19, 2024, Banana Gun's Telegram message oracle validation failure allowed attackers to forge transfer authorizations and drain $3M from 11 users' wallets. All users were reimbursed from the treasury.
In review: possible duplicate within one source.
Details
- Date
- Sep 19, 2024
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Frontend Compromise
- How in
- Keys, accounts and infrastructure
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Ethereum, Solana
After the theft
- Victims reimbursed
- yes, amount not stated
“All users were reimbursed from the treasury.” (DefiLlama)
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Banana Gun hack, Sep 19, 2024: $3M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htbc02ad6111/ (data as of 2026-11-01).