Cryptocurrency [loss] $750,000

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2025-04-14 [vendor] KiloEx [chain] ethereum, bsc
Primary Source ↗
Financial Loss $750,000 (750,000 USD)
Recovered $6.8M
Blockchain(s) Ethereum, Bsc

Incident Details

KiloEx, a decentralized perpetual futures exchange, was exploited for $7.5 million. An attacker executed an oracle manipulation attack on KiloEx’s pricing smart contracts to steal funds across the Base Ethereum layer-2 chain, BNB Chain, and Taiko.KiloEx halted trading on the platform while investigating the exploit, and contacted the hacker to try to negotiate a 90% return of funds.KiloEx later announced that the recovery had been successful, and that they would pay out the 10% “bounty”.

Total loss estimated at $750,000.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Oracle price manipulation
Vendor / Product
KiloEx

Timeline

  1. 2025-04-14 Breach occurred
  2. 2025-04-14 Publicly disclosed