Hack history / 2021 / Hack or exploit
Levyathan
Hack or exploit on Jul 28, 2021 · Key Stored Publicly
ATTACK TX CONFIRMED ON CHAINSOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 4 SOURCES
Lost
$1.5M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#802
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
Levyathan developers stored private keys with minting capability on GitHub. The attacker used these to pass a timelock transaction on July 28 and execute an ownership transfer on July 30, minting 100 quintillion LEV tokens. The weak timelock controls lacked multisig authorization.
Details
- Date
- Jul 28, 2021
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Key Stored Publicly
- How in
- Keys, accounts and infrastructure
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- BNB Chain
- Audit (rekt.news)
- unaudited
Reported by
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Levyathan hack, Jul 28, 2021: $1.5M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htf02553362b/ (data as of 2026-10-31).