Incident All ledgers
PlayDapp: $290.0m
PlayDapp lost $290.0m on 9 February 2024. Ranked 16th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 9 February 2024
- Lost
- $290.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- DeFi Protocol
- Category
- Key Compromise
- Method
- Hot Wallet Key Compromised
- Chains
- Ethereum
PlayDapp lost about $290M after its deployer key was compromised through spear-phishing; the attacker made itself a minter on the PLA token contract and minted 1.79 billion tokens in two transactions on Feb 9 and Feb 12.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 16th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 2nd in 2024.
- It accounts for 85.2% of the $340.4m in known losses in February 2024.
- 153 incidents in the ledger are classified as Key Compromise, for $8.96bn in total. This one is 3.2% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 Feb 2014 | Mt. Gox | $470.0m | CEX | Private Key Compromised | — |
| 24 Sept 2026 | Bitget | $387.0m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 29 Sept 2020 | KuCoin | $281.0m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 21 Apr 2018 | Gate | $235.0m | CEX | Private Key Compromised | — |
| 04 Dec 2021 | BitMart | $196.0m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
All failures in 2024 · 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, “PlayDapp, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/playdapp-2024-02-09/. How this is built