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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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$101B+
Total Value Lost
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3299
Incidents Tracked
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74
Chains Affected
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80
$100M+ Incidents
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Showing 51–100 of 3299 ranked incidents
| Rank | Project | Amount Lost | Date | Chain | Technique | Attack Guide | Source |
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| 51 | Bitmart | $196.0M | bsc, ethereum | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 52 | Nomad | $190.0M | ethereum | Trusted Root Exploit / Other | — | View → | |
| 53 | Beanstalk | $181.0M | ethereum | Flashloan Governance Attack / Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 54 | BTC-e | $181.0M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 55 | Wintermute | $160.0M | ethereum | Private Key Compromised (Brute Force) / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 56 | Token.Store | $160.0M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 57 | Parity | $155.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 58 | Parity Multisig | $150.0M | ethereum | Contract not initialized | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 59 | Compound V2 | $147.0M | ethereum | Math Mistake Exploit | Arithmetic Overflows Underflows | View → | |
| 60 | QuadrigaCX | $147.0M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 61 | Control Finance | $147.0M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 62 | BitGrail | $146.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 63 | Vulcan Forged | $140.0M | ethereum, polygon | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 64 | Boy X Highspeed | $139.9M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 65 | Cream Finance | $130.0M | - | Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 66 | CREAM Lending | $130.0M | ethereum | Flashloan Price Oracle Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 67 | Balancer V2 | $128.0M | arbitrum, base, ethereum, optimism, polygon, sonic | Composable Stable Pools Exploit / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 68 | Poloniex | $126.0M | bitcoin, ethereum, tron | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 69 | Multichain | $126.0M | bsc, fantom, moonriver | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 70 | Ormeus Coin | $124.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 71 | Badger DAO | $120.3M | ethereum | Cloudflare Key Compromised / Other | — | View → | |
| 72 | BonqDAO | $120.0M | - | Oracle Issue | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 73 | Mango Markets V3 | $116.0M | solana | Price Oracle Attack / Other | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 74 | Atomic Wallet | $115.0M | avalanche, bitcoin, bsc, ethereum, polkadot, tron | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 75 | Maiar DEX | $113.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 76 | Chris Larsen | $112.5M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 77 | Bitget | $100.0M | - | Market-Making Bot Exploit | — | View → | |
| 78 | EmpiresX | $100.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 79 | Horizon by Harmony | $100.0M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 80 | Harmony Bridge | $100.0M | bsc, ethereum | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 81 | Liquid | $97.0M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 82 | Stream Finance | $93.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 83 | Phishing | $91.0M | - | Phishing | Phishing Attacks | View → | |
| 84 | Mirror Protocol | $90.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 85 | Mirror | $90.0M | terra | Outdated Oracle Exploit / Duplicate Call Exploit | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 86 | Compound Labs | $89.0M | ethereum | Oracle Issue | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 87 | Heco Bridge | $86.6M | ethereum | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 88 | HECO | $86.3M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 89 | Phemex | $85.0M | arbitrum, avalanche, base, bitcoin, bsc, ethereum, optimism, polygon, solana, sui, tron, xrp, zksync era | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) / Other | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 90 | Nobitex | $82.0M | arbitrum, avalanche, bitcoin, bsc, ethereum, polygon, tron | Hot wallet hack / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 91 | Orbit Bridge | $81.7M | ethereum | Signature Exploit | — | View → | |
| 92 | Orbit Chain | $81.6M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 93 | Rari Capital | $80.0M | arbitrum, ethereum | Flashloan Reentrancy Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 94 | Qubit | $80.0M | bsc | Transfer Logic Exploit | — | View → | |
| 95 | Qubit Finance | $80.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 96 | Rari Fuse | $79.7M | - | Reentrancy | Reentrancy | View → | |
| 97 | AscenDEX | $77.7M | bsc, ethereum, polygon | Private Key Compromised / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 98 | Venus | $77.0M | - | Oracle Issue | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 99 | Fireblocks | $75.0M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 100 | Compound Labs | $71.1M | - | Other | — | View → |
Data sourced from DefiLlama & SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs . Thank you for keeping Web3 security data open.
Context
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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