Incident All ledgers
Fortress Trust: $12.0m
Fortress Trust lost $12.0m on 7 September 2023. Ranked 175th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 7 September 2023
- Lost
- $12.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- CEX
- Category
- Frontend & Infrastructure
- Method
- Key Leaked via Infrastructure
- Chains
- Ethereum, Bitcoin
Attackers phished Retool, a third-party vendor whose portal Fortress Trust customers used for crypto custody, obtaining Fortress operator credentials and making unauthorized transfers from customer accounts. Losses were $12 million.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 175th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 22nd in 2023.
- It accounts for 3.7% of the $321.3m in known losses in September 2023.
- 93 incidents in the ledger are classified as Frontend & Infrastructure, for $7.49bn in total. This one is 0.2% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Other incidents named Fortress
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 May 2022 | Fortress Loans | $3.0m | DeFi Protocol | Malicious Proposal | — |
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Jun 2023 | Floating Point Group | $15.0m | CEX | Key Leaked via Infrastructure | — |
| 25 Jan 2026 | Matcha | $13.4m | DeFi Protocol | Frontend Compromise | — |
| 08 May 2025 | BitoPro | $11.5m | CEX | Key Leaked via Infrastructure | — |
| 30 Oct 2025 | Garden | $11.4m | DeFi Protocol | Key Leaked via Infrastructure | — |
| 28 Jan 2025 | DogWifTools | $10.0m | Other | Key Stored Publicly | — |
All failures in 2023 · The failures ledger
Amounts are DefiLlama’s estimates and can change as incidents are revalued. Its returned figure can include money a company repaid itself, not only funds recovered from attackers. Source: DefiLlama.
Cite this Bitminer.io, “Fortress Trust, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/fortress-trust-2023-09-07/. How this is built