Hack history / 2021 / Hack or exploit
Alpha Homora
Hack or exploit on Oct 23, 2021 · Spot Price Manipulation
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 2 SOURCES
Lost
$147K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,582
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
MEV bot extracted value from Alpha Homora V2 via sandwich attack on Uniswap V2 addLiquidity function. The attacker took advantage of implicit assumptions in Uniswap's contract that were not enforced at the contract level, allowing slippage to bypass checks on certain trade paths.
Details
- Date
- Oct 23, 2021
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Spot Price Manipulation
- How in
- Price, oracle and governance
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Ethereum
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Alpha Homora hack, Oct 23, 2021: $147K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htcd88f6f2dd/ (data as of 2026-11-01).