Hack history / 2023 / Hack or exploit
NFT Trader
Hack or exploit on Dec 16, 2023 · Reentrancy
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 4 SOURCES
Lost
$3M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#596
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
NFT Trader's old smart contracts contained reentrancy vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to drain NFT collateral. Multiple actors exploited the flaw to steal 13 Mutant Apes, 37 Bored Apes, and other high-value NFTs worth ~$3M total.
Details
- Date
- Dec 16, 2023
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Reentrancy
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Ethereum
Related incidents
Trader loses almost $50 million in Aave swap gone wrong 2026 · Costly mistake or other · $50M
Trader accidentally sends 2,000 SOL to bankrupt FTX 2025 · Fraud · $396K
Trader reveals he lost $28 million to bad copy-paste 2024 · Costly mistake or other · $28.1M
Trader loses $4.5 million in phishing attack 2024 · Scam · $4.5M
Trader loses $5.7 million to slippage in memecoin trade 2024 · Costly mistake or other · $5.7M
Trader accidentally sends 2,000 SOL to bankrupt FTX 2025 · Fraud · $396K
Trader reveals he lost $28 million to bad copy-paste 2024 · Costly mistake or other · $28.1M
Trader loses $4.5 million in phishing attack 2024 · Scam · $4.5M
Trader loses $5.7 million to slippage in memecoin trade 2024 · Costly mistake or other · $5.7M
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "NFT Trader hack, Dec 16, 2023: $3M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htd031fd8a39/ (data as of 2026-10-31).