Hack history / 2022 / Hack or exploit
Wintermute
Hack or exploit on Sep 20, 2022 · Phishing
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 4 SOURCES
Lost
$160M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#38
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
On September 20, 2022, Wintermute's $160M DeFi hot wallet was compromised. Attacker brute-forced the private key using a weak 32-bit seed from the Profanity vanity address generator; only DeFi operations were affected.
Details
- Date
- Sep 20, 2022
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Phishing
- How in
- Phishing and scams
- Target
- Other
- Chains
- Ethereum
Related incidents
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FTX 2022 · Hack or exploit · $477M
Uniswap (Phishing Attack) 2022 · Hack or exploit · $8.2M
Terra (LUNA) 2022 · Hack or exploit · $4.3M
OpenSea 2022 · Hack or exploit · $3M
FTX 2022 · Hack or exploit · $477M
Uniswap (Phishing Attack) 2022 · Hack or exploit · $8.2M
Terra (LUNA) 2022 · Hack or exploit · $4.3M
OpenSea 2022 · Hack or exploit · $3M
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Wintermute hack, Sep 20, 2022: $160M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htdad323da4c/ (data as of 2026-10-31).