A security breach on August 22, 2026, allowed hackers to create about 14.9 billion unbacked SAND tokens on The Sandbox's Base network via a smart contract flaw. The real financial loss was around $675,000 after extracting 14.75 million SAND tokens from Ethereum. The Sandbox team quickly disabled cross-chain bridges on Base and BNB Smart Chain to contain the damage, while major Korean exchanges Upbit and Bithumb paused SAND trading. Tokens on Ethereum and Polygon remained safe, and the project plans compensation and further analysis. This incident highlights risks in multi-chain token systems and has caused a temporary price dip in SAND.
The Sandbox suffered a major security breach when an attacker exploited its cross-chain bridge on Base and BNB Smart Chain, minting 14.9 billion unbacked SAND tokens worth about $718 million. The vulnerability was isolated to the SAND Omnichain Fungi...
The Sandbox suspended SAND token bridging on Base and BNB Smart Chain after an attacker exploited the cross-chain system to mint unbacked tokens, isolating SAND on these networks. The Ethereum-based SAND remains secure and unaffected, with no user wa...
The Sandbox gaming platform paused cross-chain transfers on Base and BNB Smart Chain after a hacker exploited a vulnerability to mint nearly $49 billion in unbacked SAND tokens. Although 14.9 billion tokens were minted, only about 14.75 million moved...
The Sandbox identified and contained a vulnerability in its cross-chain bridge on Base and BNB Smart Chain that allowed an attacker to mint unbacked SAND tokens. The incident affected less than 0.01% of the total 3 billion SAND supply, with no user w...
