Hack history / 2022 / Hack or exploit
Audius
Hack or exploit on Jul 23, 2022 · Malicious Proposal
ATTACK TX CONFIRMED ON CHAININ REVIEWSOURCES DISAGREE ON DATE OR LOSS · 5 SOURCES
Lost
$1.1M
sources: $1.1M to $6M
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#893
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
On July 23-25, 2022, Audius governance contracts were compromised when an attacker exploited a missing initialization guard allowing repeated invoke() calls. The attacker drained 18 million AUDIO tokens (~$6M) from the treasury and attempted to delegate 10 trillion tokens to controlled wallets.
In review: possible duplicate within one source; sources disagree on the loss.
Details
- Date
- Jul 23, 2022
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Malicious Proposal
- How in
- Price, oracle and governance
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Ethereum
- Audit (rekt.news)
- Kudelski, OpenZeppelin
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Audius hack, Jul 23, 2022: $1.1M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htc28b633eb6/ (data as of 2026-10-31).