Incidents by month

Crypto hacks and exploits in May 2024

Name: OAK — OnChain Attack Knowledge Dataset
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Keywords: on-chain attacks, smart contract exploits, crypto laundering, threat actors, taxonomy

8 incidents. Each links to a full write-up: timeline, OAK Techniques, attacker addresses and fund flow, with sources.

Incidents (8)

DMM Bitcoin exchange hack (May 2024): $305M — 2024-05-31 · loss $305M · OAK-T11.001 Third-Party Signing-Vendor UI / Signing-Flow Compromise
Gala Games admin-key compromise emergency-recovery — Ethereum — 2024-05-20 — 2024-05-20 · loss $200M · OAK-T11.014 Operator Privileged-Key Compromise
Sonne Finance empty-market rounding-error exploit — Optimism — 2024-05-14 — 2024-05-14 · loss $20M · OAK-T7.001 Mixer-Routed Hop
Address Poisoning hack (May 2024): $68M — 2024-05-03 · loss $68M · OAK-T4.003 Address Poisoning
Uniswap DAO delegation governance concentration — delegate voting-weight accumulation and community governance dynamics — Ethereum — 2023–2025 — OAK-T16.003 Delegation-Cluster Vote Takeover
Ether.fi weETH liquid-restaking-token discount-to-NAV event — Ethereum L1 — 2024-05 — OAK-T14.003 Restaking Cascading Risk
EigenLayer restaking airdrop dispute and AVS slashing-condition cohort — Ethereum L1 — 2024-05 onward — loss $1B · OAK-T14.001 Slashing-Condition Exploit
Cypher Protocol Hoak insider theft from redemption fund — Solana — 2024-05 — loss $317K · OAK-T11