Leaderboard
29All-time rank
Wintermute
Sep 20, 2022
$160M
Lost
$160M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$160M
Unrecovered0% recovered
On September 20, 2022, Wintermute's $160M DeFi hot wallet was compromised. Attacker brute-forced the private key using a weak 32-bit seed from the Profanity vanity address generator; only DeFi operations were affected.
- Target
- Other
- Classification
- Social Engineering
- Technique
- Phishing
- Attribution
- North Korea
- Chains
Ethereum
Event timeline
- Sep 20, 2022Exploit executed — $160M drained via phishing
- Attributed to North Korea
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%