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Coinbase
Aug 13, 2025
$300K
Lost
$300K
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$300K
Unrecovered0% recovered
Coinbase's corporate DEX wallet lost $300,000 on August 13, 2025 when MEV bots exploited misconfigured token approvals granted to a 0x protocol swapper contract.
How the exploit worked
View reproducible PoCMisconfiguration.
Lost: 300k USD
Source: DeFiHackLabs (SunWeb3Sec)
- Target
- CEX
- Classification
- Access Control
- Technique
- Token Approval Abuse
- Attribution
- Unknown
- Chains
Ethereum
Event timeline
- Aug 13, 2025Exploit executed — $300K drained via token approval abuse
- Attributed to Unknown
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%
Data credits
- DefiLlamaIncident record, amounts, chains, recovery data and logo
- DeFiHackLabsExploit analysis and reproducible proof-of-concept (by SunWeb3Sec)