Data leak

"Attacker uses flash loans in $24.5 million exploit of DeFi protocol xToken"

2021-05-12
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Incident Details

A flash loan attack allowed hackers to exploit two vulnerabilities in the xToken DeFi platform and steal $24.5 million. This was the first of two large-scale hacks of the platform this year.

Total loss estimated at $24,500,000.

Timeline

  1. 2021-05-12 Breach occurred
  2. 2021-05-12 Publicly disclosed