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Incident · DEFILLAMA

Bybit

Safe Multisig wallet Phishing Exploit
Estimated loss
$1.40B
$1.40B returned
VERDICT —OUT OF SCOPE
Root cause is phishing — victims signed malicious transactions or approvals off-protocol. Contract logic was not the failure surface; user-side wallet hygiene was. Pre-deployment audit cannot catch this class.
▰ METHOD
Safe Multisig wallet Phishing Exploit
PHISHING
Root cause

Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.

▰ PROOF OF CONCEPT
DEFIHACKLABS
src/test/2025-02/Bybit_exp.sol
view forked test on github ↗

Reproducible Foundry test fork from SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs. Clone the repo, run forge test against the file path above, and replay the exploit against a mainnet fork at the historical block. Use for reproduction only — not for live targets.

Forensic narrative

Classification: Protocol Logic. Technique: Safe Multisig wallet Phishing Exploit. Target type: CEX. Affected chains: Ethereum. Implementation language: Solidity. Funds returned: $1,400,000,000.

Sourced from
DefiLlama Hacks dataset · api.llama.fi/hacks
Technical record
chain
ethereum
protocol
Bybit
bug_class
phishing
date_occurred
2025-02-21
loss_usd
$1,400,000,000
classification
Protocol Logic
technique
Safe Multisig wallet Phishing Exploit
target_type
CEX
language
Solidity
source_id
dl:2286
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