Crypto Hacks
The biggest crypto hacks of all time
The ten largest crypto hacks ever, then the top 10 of every year since 2015, ranked by the dollar value taken, with what each year cost in total.
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Top 10 biggest crypto hacks of all time
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Binance
Oct 29, 2026CEXEthereumBitcoinTRON+4 chains$6.36BAttackers gained access to Binance’s internal systems and signing privileges, then made unauthorized withdrawals across multiple blockchains. Some stolen assets were frozen or intercepted, and Binance said it would cover the losses.
Our coverage: Binance’s Fake Job Interview Used One Trust-building TrickSourceRekt report
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LuBian
Dec 28, 2020OtherBitcoin$3.5B3
Bybit
Feb 21, 2025CEXEthereum$1.4B returned$1.4BAttackers tricked Bybit signers into approving a masked transaction that changed the hot wallet’s security rules, using a spoofed Safe interface. This enabled the theft of over $1.4 billion in ETH and other assets.
4
BeautyChain
Apr 22, 2018TokenEthereum$1B5
Ronin Network
Mar 23, 2022DeFi ProtocolBridgeEthereum$624M6
Poly Network
Aug 10, 2021DeFi ProtocolBridgeEthereumBSCPolygon$611M7
BNB Bridge
Oct 6, 2022DeFi ProtocolBridgeBSC$570M8
Coincheck
Jan 26, 2018CEXNEM$534M9
Vires Finance
Apr 5, 2022$530M10
MtGox
Feb 7, 2014CEXBitcoin$470M
Crypto stolen in hacks, per year
Top 10 crypto hacks of 2026
$9.04B stolen in 440 incidents
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Binance
Oct 29, 2026CEXEthereumBitcoinTRON+4 chains$6.36BAttackers gained access to Binance’s internal systems and signing privileges, then made unauthorized withdrawals across multiple blockchains. Some stolen assets were frozen or intercepted, and Binance said it would cover the losses.
Our coverage: Binance’s Fake Job Interview Used One Trust-building TrickSourceRekt report
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Bitget
Sep 24, 2026CEXEthereumXRPTron+1 chains$387MAttackers used access obtained through a third-party security product to issue fraudulent withdrawal commands from Bitget hot and warm wallets. About $387.5 million was transferred to attacker-controlled addresses; Bitget said private keys and cold wallets were not compromised and the incident was contained.
3
Liquid Network
Sep 6, 2026ChainBridgeLiquid$320MA vulnerability in Liquid’s underlying Elements software let an attacker create unbacked L-BTC and use SideSwap’s normal withdrawal service to make the federation release about 3,996 BTC. The attacker later returned 3,400 BTC and retained about 598.5 BTC; no keys were compromised.
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Drift Protocol
Apr 1, 2026DeFi ProtocolSolana$295MAttackers tricked Drift Protocol security council members into pre-signing transactions that gave them administrative control. They listed a worthless fake token as collateral, deposited it, and withdrew about $285 million in real assets.
5
Kelp DAO
Apr 18, 2026DeFi ProtocolBridgeEthereumArbitrum$293MAttackers compromised RPC nodes used to verify Kelp DAO’s rsETH bridge messages and made the single-verifier setup accept forged messages. This enabled about $290 million in losses; LayerZero said its protocol and other applications were not affected.
6
Crédit Mutuel Arkéa
Nov 1, 2026$133MAn attacker accessed a third-party service provider’s platform and used Crédit Mutuel Arkéa’s accounts to transfer funds to other financial institutions; some may later have been converted to cryptocurrency. The bank said customer assets were unaffected, while the final loss remained under assessment.
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Tectonic
Aug 30, 2026DeFi ProtocolCronos$124MThe attacker repeatedly borrowed and redeposited TONIC, then sent TONIC directly to its receipt-token contract to inflate the collateral value; an unreliable price feed compounded the effect. Tectonic’s lending markets lost about $120 million, but a Cronos rollback recovered most of it; about $9.19 million remains unrecovered.
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Coldcard
Jul 31, 2026WalletBitcoin$116MA Coldcard firmware flaw bypassed the hardware random-number generator during seed creation, leaving some wallet keys weak enough to guess offline. Attackers used this to drain bitcoin from many addresses without accessing the devices.
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Ledger (Supply Chain)
Oct 9, 2026Wallet$93MGenuine Ledger hardware wallets were secretly modified to capture recovery phrases during setup and send them over cellular connections. Attackers used the phrases to access and drain customers’ crypto; Ledger said its core systems were not compromised.
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Nesa
Aug 24, 2026ChainNesa$50MNesa confirmed an exploit involving a Cosmos EVM vulnerability, and reports said an attacker bridged 257.7 million NES to Ethereum. Nesa did not publish transaction-level details of the exploit; the reported mechanism resembles a balance-accounting bug affecting other Cosmos EVM chains.
Top 10 crypto hacks of 2025
$2.8B stolen in 252 incidents
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Bybit
Feb 21, 2025CEXEthereum$1.4B returned$1.4BAttackers tricked Bybit signers into approving a masked transaction that changed the hot wallet’s security rules, using a spoofed Safe interface. This enabled the theft of over $1.4 billion in ETH and other assets.
2
Cetus
May 22, 2025DeFi ProtocolSui$223MA math error in Cetus’s liquidity calculations let attackers create positions showing large amounts of fake liquidity with minimal deposits, then withdraw real pool assets. Sui validators froze some of the funds, while others escaped.
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Balancer V2
Nov 3, 2025DeFi ProtocolEthereumArbitrumBase+3 chains$128MA rounding flaw in Balancer V2’s stable-pool swap calculations let attackers manipulate pool values and withdraw assets for far less than they were worth. The exploit affected pools across several chains; mitigation efforts protected or recovered some funds.
4
Bitget
Apr 20, 2025CEX$100MBitget’s market-making bot entered a predictable trading loop on the VOXEL/USDT futures pair. Traders used high leverage to extract about $100 million before Bitget froze accounts and rolled back trades.
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Phemex
Jan 23, 2025CEXEthereumSolanaXRP+10 chains$85M6
Nobitex
Jun 18, 2025CEXTronEthereumBSC+4 chains$82MCompromised hot-wallet keys let attackers steal roughly $82–90 million from Nobitex across multiple blockchains. The attackers sent the stolen assets to inaccessible addresses, destroying rather than keeping them.
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UPCX
Apr 1, 2025DeFi ProtocolEthereum$70M8
Infini
Feb 24, 2025DeFi ProtocolEthereum$49.5M9
BtcTurk
Aug 14, 2025CEXEthereumAvalancheArbitrum+4 chains$48MBtcTurk’s hot wallets were hit across seven blockchains after private keys were compromised, with reports estimating losses in the tens of millions of dollars. The exchange acknowledged unusual wallet activity and suspended deposits and withdrawals.
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CoinDCX
Jul 19, 2025CEX$44.2MA server breach exposed the private key for CoinDCX’s operational hot wallet, and the attacker stole about $44 million in corporate funds, moving assets from Solana to Ethereum. Customer funds in cold storage were unaffected.
Top 10 crypto hacks of 2024
$1.95B stolen in 417 incidents
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DMM Bitcoin
May 31, 2024CEXBitcoin$305M returned$305M2
PlayDapp
Feb 9, 2024DeFi ProtocolEthereum$290M3
WazirX
Jul 18, 2024CEXEthereum$235M4
Chris Larsen
Jan 31, 2024$113M5
Munchables
Mar 26, 2024GamingBlast$62.5M6
BitForex
Feb 23, 2024$56.5M7
BtcTurk
Jun 22, 2024CEX$54M8
Radiant Capital
Oct 16, 2024DeFi ProtocolBSCArbitrum$50M9
Hedgey
Apr 19, 2024DeFi ProtocolArbitrumEthereum$44.7M10
BingX
Sep 20, 2024CEXEthereum$43.3M
Top 10 crypto hacks of 2023
$1.96B stolen in 403 incidents
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Mixin Network
Sep 23, 2023OtherMixin$200M2
Euler Finance
Mar 13, 2023DeFi ProtocolEthereum$240M returned$197M3
Poloniex
Nov 10, 2023CEXTronEthereumBitcoin$126M4
Multichain
Jul 7, 2023DeFi ProtocolBridgeMoonriverBSCFantom$126M5
HTX & Heco
Nov 22, 2023$113M6
Atomic
Jun 3, 2023WalletEthereumTronBSC+3 chains$100M7
HECO Bridge, HTX
Nov 22, 2023DeFi ProtocolBridgeEthereum$86.6M8
Orbit Chain
Dec 31, 2023DeFi ProtocolBridgeEthereum$81.7M9
Curve Finance
Jul 30, 2023DeFi ProtocolEthereum$61.7M10
Alphapo
Jul 26, 2023CEXEthereumTron$60M
Top 10 crypto hacks of 2022
$4.39B stolen in 307 incidents
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Ronin Network
Mar 23, 2022DeFi ProtocolBridgeEthereum$624M2
BNB Bridge
Oct 6, 2022DeFi ProtocolBridgeBSC$570M3
Vires Finance
Apr 5, 2022$530M4
FTX
Nov 12, 2022CEXEthereumSolana$450M5
Wormhole
Feb 2, 2022DeFi ProtocolBridgeSolana$326M returned$326M6
Nomad
Aug 1, 2022DeFi ProtocolBridgeEthereum$190M7
Beanstalk
Apr 17, 2022DeFi ProtocolEthereum$181M8
Wintermute
Sep 20, 2022OtherEthereum$160M9
Mango
Oct 11, 2022DeFi ProtocolSolana$115M10
Elrond
Jun 5, 2022DeFi ProtocolElrond$113M
Top 10 crypto hacks of 2021
$3.13B stolen in 236 incidents
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Poly Network
Aug 10, 2021DeFi ProtocolBridgeEthereumBSCPolygon$611M2
BitMart
Dec 4, 2021CEXEthereumBSC$196M3
Compound
Sep 29, 2021DeFi ProtocolEthereum$147M4
Vulcan Forged
Dec 13, 2021DeFi ProtocolEthereumPolygon$140M5
BXH
Oct 30, 2021DeFi ProtocolBSC$139M6
Cream Finance
Oct 27, 2021DeFi ProtocolEthereum$130M7
BadgerDAO
Dec 2, 2021DeFi ProtocolEthereum$120M8
Venus
May 18, 2021DeFi ProtocolBSC$100M9
Liquid
Aug 19, 2021CEXEthereum$91.4M10
Mirror Protocol
Oct 8, 2021DeFi ProtocolTerra$90M
Top 10 crypto hacks of 2020
$4.42B stolen in 111 incidents
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LuBian
Dec 28, 2020OtherBitcoin$3.5B2
KuCoin
Sep 29, 2020CEXEthereum$281M3
YFValue
Aug 24, 2020$170M4
Compounder.Finance
Dec 1, 2020$80M5
Saffron Finance
Nov 30, 2020$50M6
Josh Jones
Feb 22, 2020$45M7
Ravencoin
Jul 3, 2020$40M8
Lendf.Me
Apr 19, 2020DeFi ProtocolEthereum$25M9
Harvest Finance
Oct 26, 2020DeFi ProtocolEthereum$24M10
Electrum
Oct 12, 2020$22M
Top 10 crypto hacks of 2019
$277M stolen in 119 incidents
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Upbit
Nov 27, 2019CEXEthereum$49.3M2
Binance
May 7, 2019CEXBitcoin$40M3
CoinBene
Mar 25, 2019CEXEthereum$40M4
BitPoint
Jul 12, 2019CEXBitcoinEthereumLitecoin+1 chains$27.6M5
Coinbin
Feb 20, 2019CEXEthereum$26M6
Bithumb
Mar 29, 2019CEXEthereumRipple$19M7
Cryptopia
Jan 14, 2019CEXEthereum$16M8
Kraken
Jun 2, 2019CEXBitcoin$10.5M9
GateHub
Jun 6, 2019CEXRipple$9.5M10
CoinTiger
Aug 17, 2019CEXEthereum$9.2M
Top 10 crypto hacks of 2018
$2.33B stolen in 84 incidents
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BeautyChain
Apr 22, 2018TokenEthereum$1B2
Coincheck
Jan 26, 2018CEXNEM$534M3
Gate
Apr 21, 2018CEX$235M4
BitGrail
Feb 12, 2018CEXNano$170M5
SmartMesh
Apr 24, 2018TokenEthereum$140M6
ZAIF
Sep 14, 2018CEXBitcoin$60M7
Blockchain.info
Feb 19, 2018$50M8
Coinrail
Jun 10, 2018CEXEthereum$37.2M9
Bithumb
Jun 21, 2018CEXEthereum$31M10
Bancor
Jul 9, 2018DeFi ProtocolEthereum$23.5M
Top 10 crypto hacks of 2017
$289M stolen in 12 incidents
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Parity Multisig
Nov 9, 2017DeFi ProtocolEthereum$150M2
Nicehash
Dec 8, 2017CEXBitcoin$64M3
Tether
Nov 19, 2017TokenBitcoin$31M4
Parity
Jul 1, 2017WalletEthereum$30M5
Coindash
Jul 18, 2017ICOEthereum$7.7M6
Yapizon
Apr 27, 2017CEXBitcoin$4.8M7
EtherDelta
Dec 20, 2017CEXEthereum$1.4M
Top 10 crypto hacks of 2016
$136M stolen in 5 incidents
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Bitfinex
Aug 2, 2016CEXBitcoin$72M2
The DAO
Jun 17, 2016DeFi ProtocolEthereum$60M3
Gatecoin
May 14, 2016CEXEthereum$2M4
Bitcurex
Oct 13, 2016CEXBitcoin$1.5M5
ShapeShift
Apr 7, 2016CEXBitcoin$230K
Top 10 crypto hacks of 2015
$9.93M stolen in 6 incidents
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Bitstamp
Jan 5, 2015CEXBitcoin$5.2M2
BTER
Feb 17, 2015CEXBitcoin$1.75M3
BTER
Aug 15, 2015CEXBitcoin$1.65M4
KipCoin
Feb 18, 2015CEXBitcoin$728K5
Bitfinex
May 22, 2015CEXBitcoin$329K6
796
Jan 27, 2015CEXBitcoin$270K
