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Terra Classic
$40.00B
Most Expensive Crypto Hacks Leaderboard
The biggest Web3 and DeFi exploits ranked by amount lost. Track high-impact incidents, study attack patterns, and learn how security failures scale into multi-million dollar losses.
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$91B+
Total Value Lost
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3595
Incidents Tracked
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141
Chains Affected
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65
$100M+ Incidents
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Showing 1-50 of 3595 ranked incidents
| Rank | Project | Amount Lost | Date | Chain | Technique | Attack Guide | Source |
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| 🥇 | Terra Classic | $40.00B | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 🥈 | Mantra | $5.50B | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 🥉 | Africrypt | $3.60B | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 4 | LuBian | $3.50B | bitcoin | Private Key Compromised (Brute Force) / Weak Key Generation | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 5 | PlusToken | $2.90B | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 6 | Genesis | $2.80B | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 7 | Thodex | $2.00B | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 8 | BitConnect | $2.00B | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 9 | Finiko | $1.50B | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 10 | Bybit | $1.40B | ethereum | Safe Multisig wallet Phishing Exploit / Access Control / Signer Phishing | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 11 | HyperVerse | $1.30B | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 12 | Celsius Network | $1.19B | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 13 | FTX Group | $1.00B | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 14 | WoToken | $1.00B | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 15 | Bitcoin Sheikh | $766.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 16 | Ronin | $625.0M | ethereum | Access Control / Private Key Compromised (Social Engineering) / Validator Key Compromised | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 17 | Poly Network | $611.0M | bsc, ethereum, polygon | Access Control Exploit / Other / Improper Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 18 | BSC Token Hub | $586.0M | bsc | Other / Proof Verifier Bug | Cross-Chain Bridge Attacks | View → | |
| 19 | Coincheck | $534.0M | nem | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) / Other / Hot Wallet Key Compromised | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 20 | FTX | $477.0M | ethereum, solana | Reported SIM-swapping connection | — | View → | |
| 21 | Mt. Gox | $473.0M | bitcoin | Other / Private Key Compromised | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 22 | MyCoin | $387.0M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 23 | Bitget | $351.6M | ethereum, tron, xrp, zcash | Access Control / Hot Wallet Key Compromised | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 24 | Phishing | $330.0M | - | Phishing | Phishing Attacks | View → | |
| 25 | Wormhole | $326.0M | solana | Other / Signature Exploit / Signature Verification Flaw | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 26 | Liquid Network | $320.0M | liquid | Other / Unbacked Cross-Chain Mint | — | View → | |
| 27 | DMM Bitcoin | $305.0M | bitcoin | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) / Access Control / Phishing | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 28 | Trade Coin Club | $295.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 29 | Kelp DAO | $293.0M | arbitrum, ethereum | Access Control / Cross-Chain Message Spoofing | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 30 | PlayDapp | $290.0M | ethereum | Access Control / Hot Wallet Key Compromised | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 31 | LIBRA | $286.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 32 | KuCoin | $285.0M | ethereum | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) / Hot Wallet Key Compromised | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 33 | Social Engineering Scam | $282.0M | - | Phishing | Phishing Attacks | View → | |
| 34 | Drift Protocol | $280.0M | solana | Access Control / Compromised Admin + Fake Token Price Manipulation / Proxy Upgrade Hijack | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 35 | Cetus CLMM | $260.0M | sui | Spoof Token Exploit / Other / Arithmetic Error | Arithmetic Overflow & Underflow Attacks | View → | |
| 36 | Gate | $235.0M | - | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) / Access Control / Private Key Compromised | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 37 | WazirX: India | $234.9M | ethereum | Safe Multisig wallet Phishing Exploit / Access Control / Signer Phishing | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 38 | Mixin Network | $200.0M | mixin | Database Attack / Other / Database Breach | — | View → | |
| 39 | Neutrino USD | $200.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 40 | Euler Finance | $196.0M | ethereum | Flash Loan Attack / Flashloan Donate Function Logic Exploit / Donation Attack | Flash Loan Attacks | View → | |
| 41 | Bitmart | $196.0M | bsc, ethereum | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) / Hot Wallet Key Compromised / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 42 | Nomad | $190.0M | ethereum | Trusted Root Exploit / Other / Forged Proof | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 43 | Beanstalk | $181.0M | ethereum | Flashloan Governance Attack / Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loan Attacks | View → | |
| 44 | BTC-e | $181.0M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 45 | BitGrail | $170.0M | nano | Other / Improper Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 46 | Wintermute | $160.0M | ethereum | Private Key Compromised (Brute Force) / Access Control / Phishing | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 47 | Token.Store | $160.0M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 48 | Parity Multisig | $150.0M | ethereum | Contract not initialized / Uninitialized Proxy / Other | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 49 | QuadrigaCX | $147.0M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 50 | Control Finance | $147.0M | - | Rugpull | — | View → |
Data sourced from DefiLlama & SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs . Thank you for keeping Web3 security data open.
Understanding the Pattern Behind Billion-Dollar Losses
The most expensive crypto hacks are not random. They cluster around repeating vulnerability patterns: access-control failures, flash-loan manipulation, oracle abuse, and unsafe external calls. Studying large-loss incidents helps security researchers prioritize high-impact threat models first.
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