Monitoring

Wintermute

CRITICALEthereum·Phishing·#26 all-time
$160.0M stolenTuesday, September 20, 2022 · 1496 days ago

Corpus updated 2026-10-25

What happened

  • Wintermute, an other, lost $160.0M on September 20, 2022.

  • The 7th largest of the 185 incidents recorded in 2022: 4.4% of the $3.63B lost to hacks that year.

  • This is the 2nd recorded incident at Wintermute; the previous one was in June 2022, $17.6M.

  • Phishing is behind 29 recorded incidents totalling $1.03B; this is the 3rd largest of them.

Cite this record

Monitoring Room, "Wintermute hack (2022) — $160.0M stolen", incident record, data: DefiLlama hacks dataset, as of 2026-10-25 08:00 UTC. https://monitoringroom.com/situation/crypto-hack/wintermute-2022

Other recorded incidents at Wintermute

DefiLlama records 2 separate incidents under this name.

Wintermute — 2022
Optimism$17.6M

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