Hack history / 2025 / Hack or exploit
KiloEx
Hack or exploit on Apr 14, 2025 · Spot Price Manipulation
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 4 SOURCES
Lost
$7.5M
sources: $7.5M to $8.4M
Returned
$6.8M
90% of the loss, as a source states it
Rank
#370
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
On April 14, 2025, at 18:53 UTC, KiloEx was exploited for $7.5M via ETH/USD price oracle manipulation across Base, BSC, and opBNB. The attacker opened positions at artificially low prices and closed at real high prices without the oracle system validating feed freshness or enforcing rate limits.
Details
- Date
- Apr 14, 2025
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Spot Price Manipulation
- How in
- Price, oracle and governance
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- BNB Chain, Base, Taiko, Ethereum
After the theft
- Recovered or seized
- yes, amount not stated
“Thanks to the active response from the project team and collaboration with SlowMist and others, all stolen assets were successfully recovered after 3.5 days of effort.” (SlowMist Hacked) - Recovered or frozen
- $6.8M
“$7.5M taken, $750K after recovery or freezing” (Web3 Is Going Great)
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "KiloEx hack, Apr 14, 2025: $7.5M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htc8f78ef224/ (data as of 2026-10-31).