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.

  • $91B+

    Total Value Lost

  • 3595

    Incidents Tracked

  • 141

    Chains Affected

  • 65

    $100M+ Incidents

Top 10 Biggest Hacks

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  1. 🥈

    Mantra

    $5.50B

  2. #4

    LuBian

    $3.50B

    bitcoin

  3. #7

    Thodex

    $2.00B

  4. #9

    Finiko

    $1.50B

  5. #10

    Bybit

    $1.40B

    ethereum

Where the Largest Losses Concentrate

Top Chains by Losses

  • ethereum $9,830M
  • bitcoin $5,404M
  • bsc $3,037M
  • solana $1,697M
  • polygon $1,539M

Top Techniques by Losses

  • Other $52,517M
  • Rugpull $15,631M
  • Private Key Compromised (Brute Force) / Weak Key Generation $3,500M
  • Safe Multisig wallet Phishing Exploit / Access Control / Signer Phishing $1,635M
  • Access Control / Hot Wallet Key Compromised $1,027M

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Showing 601-650 of 3595 ranked incidents

Largest Web3 incidents by USD amount lost
Rank Project Amount Lost Date Chain Technique Attack Guide Source
601 Mirror Protocol $2.0M terra Oracle Issue / Improper Access Control Access Control Attacks View →
602 Mad Meerkat Finance $2.0M cronos Other / DNS Spoofing / DNS Hijack — View →
603 OpenSea $2.0M ethereum Access Control / Phishing Access Control Attacks View →
604 AutoSharkFinance $2.0M - Other — View →
605 Circle $2.0M - Access Control Access Control Attacks View →
606 Akropolis $2.0M ethereum Flashloan Reentrancy Attack / Flash Loan Attack / Reentrancy Flash Loan Attacks View →
607 MintPal $2.0M bitcoin Access Control / Improper Access Control Access Control Attacks View →
608 PancakeHunny $2.0M - Other — View →
609 MEV Bot $2.0M ethereum Other / Improper Access Control Access Control Attacks View →
610 Dough Finance $2.0M ethereum Unvalidated call data exploit / Access Control / Arbitrary External Call Access Control Attacks View →
611 Titano $1.9M bsc Other / Backdoor Contract — View →
612 Coinis $1.9M - Access Control Access Control Attacks View →
613 BTER $1.9M - Rugpull — View →
614 Dango $1.9M dango Donate Negative Amounts Hack / Missing Input Validation — View →
615 AARK (Aark Digital) $1.9M arbitrum Decimal Miscalculation — —
616 XBridge $1.9M bsc, ethereum Access Control / Improper Access Control Access Control Attacks View →
617 Dolomite $1.9M ethereum Acces Control Exploit / Other / Improper Access Control Access Control Attacks View →
618 KLAYswap $1.9M - Other — View →
619 FEG Token $1.9M bsc, ethereum Improper Access Control Access Control Attacks —
620 CF Token $1.9M bsc Improper Access Control Access Control Attacks —
621 KlaySwap $1.9M klaytn Frontend Compromise — —
622 Percent Finance $1.9M - Other — View →
623 Omm $1.9M icon Redeem Function Exploit / Redeem Logic Flaw / Other — View →
624 Transit Finance $1.9M tron Other / Improper Access Control Access Control Attacks View →
625 BT.Finance $1.9M ethereum Flash Loan Attack / Spot Price Manipulation Flash Loan Attacks View →
626 Concentric $1.9M arbitrum Compromised vault-upgrade authority Access Control Attacks View →
627 Payy Network $1.8M ethereum Access Control / Bridge Logic Flaw Access Control Attacks View →
628 IVY $1.8M - Rugpull — View →
629 Phishing $1.8M - Phishing Phishing Attacks View →
630 MERLIN DEX $1.8M zksync era Drained Contracts / Access Control / Admin Drain Access Control Attacks View →
631 Limit Break Payment Processor $1.8M apechain, base, ethereum, polygon Token Approval Abuse Access Control Attacks —
632 Nexera $1.8M ethereum Compromised management credentials Access Control Attacks View →
633 BonqDAO $1.8M polygon Price Oracle Attack / Oracle Misconfiguration / Manipulated collateral price Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation View →
634 PancakeSwap $1.8M bsc Alleged lottery-admin abuse Access Control Attacks View →
635 Ledger $1.8M - Access Control Access Control Attacks View →
636 CoinTiger $1.8M ethereum Access Control / Key Leaked via Infrastructure Access Control Attacks View →
637 BTER $1.8M bitcoin Access Control / Private Key Compromised Access Control Attacks View →
638 Bent Finance $1.8M ethereum User Balances Manually Updated / Other / Backdoor Contract Access Control Attacks View →
639 Moonwell Lending $1.8M base cbETH Collateral Exploit / Oracle Issue / Oracle Misconfiguration Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation View →
640 USDC Permit Signature Phishing $1.8M - Phishing Phishing Attacks View →
641 8ightDAO $1.8M harmony Reported treasury-key exposure Access Control Attacks View →
642 Verge $1.8M verge Withdrawal Logic Flaw — —
643 EVODeFi $1.7M bsc Flash Loan Attack / Reward Logic Flaw Flash Loan Attacks View →
644 Notional Finance $1.7M ethereum Other / Arithmetic Error — View →
645 DePo $1.7M - Access Control Access Control Attacks View →
646 Maya Protocol $1.7M mayachain Other / Withdrawal Logic Flaw — View →
647 Taiko $1.7M taiko Other / Forged Proof — View →
648 Abracadabra Spell $1.7M ethereum Sequential State Manipulation Exploit / Other / Improper Access Control Access Control Attacks View →
649 XT Exchange $1.7M ethereum Access Control / Hot Wallet Key Compromised Access Control Attacks View →
650 Grand Base $1.7M base Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) / Access Control / Phishing Access Control Attacks 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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Frequently Asked Questions

How is this leaderboard ranked?

Incidents are ranked by parsed USD amount lost in descending order. Records without parseable loss values are excluded from this ranking.

Does this include every attack type?

It includes all incidents with known loss values in the database. Use the full dashboard for broader filtering and lower-severity incidents.

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