Hack history / 2016 / Hack or exploit
The DAO
Hack or exploit on Jun 17, 2016 · Reentrancy
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 2 SOURCES
Lost
$60M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#93
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
The DAO hack of June 17, 2016 was the first major Ethereum reentrancy attack. Attacker recursively called splitDAO before balance updates, extracting 3.6M ETH (~$60M).
Details
- Date
- Jun 17, 2016
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Reentrancy
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Ethereum
Reported by
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "The DAO hack, Jun 17, 2016: $60M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htbff7b99587/ (data as of 2026-10-31).