Significant Crypto Hacks

The total amount of money lost in crypto hacks is more than $28.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency *.

We believe it is important for people to have all the relevant information necessary to make smart decisions about the safest way to store cryptocurrency. This informative page lists some of the major security failures that have had a significant impact on the crypto industry.

* Source: SlowMist
2024
Jul
2024

$11.6 Million Vanishes From QuantMatter’s OKX Institutional Account

Users funds lost $11,600,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Jul
2024

In just 15 minutes, an OKX user had all his assets, totaling approximately $680K, stolen without clicking any unsafe links or providing verification information.

Users funds lost $680,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Jun
2024

Binance Hack: Users Hit by Google Plugin Scam, Lose Millions

Users funds lost $1,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Feb
2024

Security Breach At Serenity Shield: $5.6 Million Worth Of Tokens Compromised

Users funds lost $5,600,000 USD
Software wallet
Source
Jan
2024

CertiK’s social media hacked, users warned against phishing links disguised as Uniswap exploit.

Users funds lost - Not revealed
Decentralized Exchange
Source
2023
Dec
2023

Ledger Connect Kit Hack. Over $850k has been stolen from users of many different crypto websites, including SushiSwap and Revoke.cash.

Users funds lost $850,000 USD
Hardware wallet
Source
Nov
2023

Crypto exchange HTX and blockchain protocol Heco Chain were hacked for a cumulative $97 million in various tokens.

Users funds lost $97,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Sep
2023

HTX was hacked and 5,000 ETH worth $8M was stolen.

Users funds lost $8,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Sep
2023

Mixin Network was hacked and $200M was stolen.

Users funds lost $200,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Sep
2023

JPEX was hacked and $4.3M worth of crypto was stolen.

Users funds lost $4,300,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Sep
2023

CoinEX was hacked and $53M worth of ETH, TRON, and Polygon was stolen.

Users funds lost $53,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Jul
2023

Curve Finance was drained of $50M in DeFi exploit.

Users funds lost $50,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Jul
2023

Alphapo was hacked and $31M worth of crypto was stolen.

Users funds lost $31,000,000 USD
Software wallet
Source
Apr
2023

Trust Wallet Browser Extension generated vulnerable new wallet addresses in November 2022 due to a WebAssembly vulnerability in the Wallet Core open-source library.

Users funds lost $170,000 USD
Software wallet
Source
Apr
2023

Kucoin Twitter account was hacked and users were tricked into sending crypto to the hacker's address.

Users funds lost $23,000 USD
Exchange
Source
2022
Dec
2022

Multichain crypto wallet BitKeep reported stolen funds

Users funds lost $8,000,000 USD
Software wallet
Source
Nov
2022

FTX Crypto exchange suffered an exploit

Users funds lost $400,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Feb
2022

IRA Financial Trust retirement accounts held at Gemini got drained

Users funds lost $36,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
2021
Dec
2021

Crypto exchange BitMart private key got stolen

Users funds lost $196,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Mar
2021

Coinbase users got attacked by a SIM swap scam

Users funds lost - Not revealed
Exchange
Source
Feb
2021

New Zealand crypto exchange Cryptopia had a second hack

Users funds lost $16,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
2020
Dec
2020

EXMO exchange got hacked

Users funds lost $7,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Sep
2020

Slovak cryptocurrency exchange Eterbase disclosed a hack

Users funds lost $5,300,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Sep
2020

KuCoin crypto exchange got attacked by hackers

Users funds lost $150,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Feb
2020

Crypto exchange Altsbit lost "almost all funds"

Users funds lost $300,000 USD
Exchange
Source
2019
Nov
2019

Crypto exchange Upbit confirmed a theft

Users funds lost $50,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Nov
2019

Crypto exchange Bittrex SIM swap hack

Users funds lost $1,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Jul
2019

Japan licensed crypto exchange BITPoint users crypto assets has had stolen

Users funds lost $32,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
May
2019

Binance has disclosed large scale security breach

Users funds lost $40,700,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Mar
2019

Singapore-based exchange DragonEx has been hacked

Users funds lost $7,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Jan
2019

QuadrigaCX fraud led to loss user funds

Users funds lost $190,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
2018
Dec
2018

Hackers stole Electrum wallet users funds via installing malware on users’ computers

Users funds lost $22,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Sep
2018

Crypto exchange Zaif has been hacked

Users funds lost $60,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Jul
2018

Crypto company Bancor has lost tokens belonging to its users following a hack

Users funds lost $23,500,000 USD
Software wallet
Source
Jun
2018

Hackers stole from the South Korea-based exchange Bithumb

Users funds lost $31,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Jun
2018

Coinrail exchange hacked

Users funds lost $40,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Feb
2018

Popular cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail has reported a loss

Users funds lost $170,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Jan
2018

World's biggest ever digital currency 'theft' of Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck

Users funds lost $534,000,000 USD
Exchange
Source
Jan
2018

Online wallet Black Wallet has claimed to have been hacked

Users funds lost $400,000 USD
Software wallet
Source