Hack history / 2022 / Hack or exploit
ApeCoin
Hack or exploit on Mar 17, 2022 · Flashloan Governance Attack
IN REVIEWSOURCES DISAGREE ON DATE OR LOSS · 3 SOURCES
Lost
$820K
sources: $500K to $1.1M
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#996
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
ApeCoin airdrop lacked snapshot protection against flash loans. An attacker flash-loaned BAYC NFTs from NFTX, claimed the airdrop allocation for those NFTs (60,564 APE tokens), and sold them for ~$820K profit in ETH.
In review: possible duplicate within one source; sources disagree on the loss.
Details
- Date
- Mar 17, 2022
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Flashloan Governance Attack
- How in
- Price, oracle and governance
- Target
- Token
- Chains
- Ethereum
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "ApeCoin hack, Mar 17, 2022: $820K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htd7b2989340/ (data as of 2026-10-31).