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Aeternity

MEDIUMAeternity·Validator Key Compromised·#299 all-time
$5.2M stolenTuesday, December 8, 2020 · 2147 days ago

Corpus updated 2026-10-25

What happened

  • Aeternity, a chain, lost $5.2M on December 8, 2020.

  • The 17th largest of the 46 incidents recorded in 2020: under 1% of the $3.98B lost to hacks that year.

  • Validator Key Compromised is behind 11 recorded incidents totalling $893.3M; this is the 6th largest of them.

Cite this record

Monitoring Room, "Aeternity hack — $5.2M stolen", incident record, data: DefiLlama hacks dataset, as of 2026-10-25 09:36 UTC. https://monitoringroom.com/situation/crypto-hack/aeternity

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Source: DefiLlama · 1317 recorded incidents · data as of 2026-10-25 09:36 UTC