Hack history / 2022 / Hack or exploit
Binance accounting bug involving Helium tokens results in $19 million of erroneous payouts
Hack or exploit on Sep 16, 2022
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$19M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#215
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
No description from DefiLlama or SlowMist; see the sources below.
Details
- Date
- Sep 16, 2022
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- not stated
- How in
- Other
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- Ethereum
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Binance accounting bug involving Helium tokens results in $19 million of erroneous payouts hack, Sep 16, 2022: $19M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htea1c789f31/ (data as of 2026-10-31).