Hack history / 2021 / Hack or exploit
Paid Network
Hack or exploit on Mar 5, 2021 · Infinite Mint
ATTACK TX CONFIRMED ON CHAININ REVIEWSOURCES DISAGREE ON DATE OR LOSS · 4 SOURCES
Lost
$27M
sources: $3M to $27M
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#171
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
PAID Network's token contract was compromised on March 5, 2021 when an attacker gained access to the deployment wallet's private key. The attacker upgraded the contract to enable unlimited token minting, creating 59.4M unauthorized PAID tokens.
In review: sources disagree on the loss.
Details
- Date
- Mar 5, 2021
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Infinite Mint
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Ethereum
- Audit (rekt.news)
- unaudited
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Paid Network hack, Mar 5, 2021: $27M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htf71342227c/ (data as of 2026-10-31).