Hack history / 2018 / Hack or exploit
BeautyChain
Hack or exploit on Apr 22, 2018 · Infinite Mint
ATTACK TX CONFIRMED ON CHAINSOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 3 SOURCES
Lost
$1.00B
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#5
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
On April 22, 2018, BeautyChain token suffered an integer overflow in the batchTransfer function, allowing attackers to generate 10^58 BEC tokens. Though face value was astronomical, the actual loss was limited by exchanges halting BEC/SMT trading on April 25 in response to the vulnerability.
Details
- Date
- Apr 22, 2018
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Infinite Mint
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- Token
- Chains
- Ethereum
Reported by
Related incidents
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "BeautyChain hack, Apr 22, 2018: $1.00B lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htf3e3bd4612/ (data as of 2026-10-31).