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GeniusAI

May 5, 2024

$1.3M
Lost
$1.3M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$1.3M
Unrecovered0% recovered

27M exploit on May 5, 2024 when a Discord breach exposed the team's deployment wallet private key. The attacker minted 100M fake GNUS tokens on Fantom, bridged them to Ethereum, and sold them into Uniswap pools, crashing the price 95%.

Target
DeFi
Classification
Social Engineering
Technique
Social Account Takeover
Attribution
Unknown
Chains
FantomEthereum

Event timeline

  1. May 5, 2024
    Exploit executed — $1.3M drained via social account takeover
  2. Attributed to Unknown
  3. Recovery status Unrecovered 0%

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