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The DAO

HIGHEthereum·Reentrancy·#60 all-time
$60.0M stolenFriday, June 17, 2016 · 3782 days ago

Corpus updated 2026-10-25

What happened

  • The DAO, a defi protocol, lost $60.0M on June 17, 2016.

  • The 2nd largest of the 5 incidents recorded in 2016: 44% of the $135.7M lost to hacks that year.

  • Reentrancy is behind 58 recorded incidents totalling $385.3M; this is the 2nd largest of them.

Cite this record

Monitoring Room, "The DAO hack — $60.0M stolen", incident record, data: DefiLlama hacks dataset, as of 2026-10-25 08:00 UTC. https://monitoringroom.com/situation/crypto-hack/the-dao

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Source: DefiLlama · 1317 recorded incidents · data as of 2026-10-25 08:00 UTC