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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
Top 10 Biggest Hacks
Where the Largest Losses Concentrate
Top Chains by Losses
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Showing 1001-1050 of 3595 ranked incidents
| Rank | Project | Amount Lost | Date | Chain | Technique | Attack Guide | Source |
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| 1001 | Enigma | $500K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1002 | DMC Token | $497K | - | Rugpull | — | — | |
| 1003 | Stable Yield Credit | $494K | ethereum | Honeypot | — | View → | |
| 1004 | Cryptobottle | $490K | polygon | Spot Price Manipulation | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | — | |
| 1005 | Fake PIToken | $490K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1006 | MetaverseToken | $487K | - | Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loan Attacks | View → | |
| 1007 | CKD TOKEN | $485K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1008 | WanderVerse NFT | $485K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1009 | TWEETY-MEGA-FUMO | $484K | - | Rugpull | — | — | |
| 1010 | Ledger Connect Kit | $484K | ethereum | Supply Chain Attack | — | — | |
| 1011 | HSO | $482K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1012 | AFI Protocol | $480K | ethereum | Unknown | — | — | |
| 1013 | Nuls | $480K | nuls | Signature Verification Flaw | — | — | |
| 1014 | Bankr | $480K | base | Social Account Takeover | Phishing Attacks | View → | |
| 1015 | Pump Farm | $478K | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1016 | Arbitrage Robot Token | $472K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1017 | BuildFinance | $470K | ethereum | Access Control / Malicious Proposal | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1018 | Swapos | $468K | ethereum | Other / Swap Logic Flaw | — | View → | |
| 1019 | Snowflake | $468K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1020 | MINER | $467K | ethereum | Other / Missing Input Validation | — | View → | |
| 1021 | Fake LAYER | $465K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1022 | Predy finance | $464K | arbitrum | Other / Improper Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1023 | Wise Lending V1 | $464K | ethereum | Rounding Donation Attack / Other / Donation Attack | — | View → | |
| 1024 | Rigoblock | $464K | ethereum | Improper Access Control | Access Control Attacks | — | |
| 1025 | NuNet | $463K | ethereum | Private Key Compromised | Access Control Attacks | — | |
| 1026 | Holdstation | $462K | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1027 | SwilrLend | $460K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1028 | Arcadia V1 | $460K | ethereum, optimism | Flashloan Reentrancy Attack / Improper Access Control / Reentrancy | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1029 | Exco | $460K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1030 | Aurellion | $456K | arbitrum | Access Control / Uninitialized Proxy | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1031 | Friend Tech | $456K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1032 | Changpeng Zhao | $454K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1033 | Libertify | $452K | ethereum, polygon | Reentrancy | Reentrancy | View → | |
| 1034 | Garden Finance | $450K | arbitrum, base, bsc, ethereum | Other / Database Breach | — | View → | |
| 1035 | Clipper | $450K | base, optimism | API Signature Exploit / Deposit Logic Flaw | — | View → | |
| 1036 | vETH | $450K | ethereum | Other / Spot Price Manipulation | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 1037 | BGM | $450K | bsc | Spot Price Manipulation | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | — | |
| 1038 | URF | $450K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1039 | Vether | $450K | ethereum | Improper Access Control | Access Control Attacks | — | |
| 1040 | Xdef finance | $450K | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1041 | Pills for Sale | $447K | ethereum | Honeypot | — | — | |
| 1042 | Poolz Finance | $443K | bsc | Other / Arithmetic Error | — | View → | |
| 1043 | SyncDex | $442K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1044 | Farcana | $440K | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1045 | AirDAO | $440K | ethereum | Access Control / Malware | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1046 | FSWAP | $432K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1047 | WaveX | $430K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1048 | Corepound | $430K | core | Drained Contracts / Admin Drain | — | View → | |
| 1049 | Dot Finance | $430K | bsc | Other / Spot Price Manipulation | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 1050 | Fair Token | $429K | - | 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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Incidents are ranked by parsed USD amount lost in descending order. Records without parseable loss values are excluded from this ranking.
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