Incident All ledgers
Somesing: $11.6m
Somesing lost $11.6m on 27 January 2024. Ranked 178th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 27 January 2024
- Lost
- $11.6m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- DeFi Protocol
- Category
- Token & Share Accounting
- Method
- Unbacked Mint
- Chains
- Ethereum
Somesing, a South Korean Web3 social music service, lost about $11.58 million when attackers exploited a vulnerability and stole 730 million SSX tokens, both undistributed and foundation-held. The foundation reported it to the National Police Agency's cyber unit.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 178th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 24th in 2024.
- It accounts for 21.0% of the $55.1m in known losses in January 2024.
- 160 incidents in the ledger are classified as Token & Share Accounting, for $1.45bn in total. This one is 0.8% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 May 2021 | ValueDefi | $11.0m | DeFi Protocol | Arithmetic Error | — |
| 22 Aug 2026 | KiiChain | $9.7m | Chain | Arithmetic Error | — |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Resupply | $9.6m | DeFi Protocol | Donation Attack | — |
| 11 Feb 2025 | zkLend | $9.6m | DeFi Protocol | First Depositor Attack | — |
| 29 Dec 2020 | Cover Protocol | $9.4m | DeFi Protocol | Arithmetic Error | — |
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, “Somesing, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/somesing-2024-01-27/. How this is built