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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 1051–1100 of 3299 ranked incidents
| Rank | Project | Amount Lost | Date | Chain | Technique | Attack Guide | Source |
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| 1051 | Cozy V2 | $427K | optimism | Insufficient Sender Verification Exploit | — | View → | |
| 1052 | BGE | $427K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1053 | Aethir | $423K | bsc | Acces Control Exploit / Other | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1054 | Evoq Finance | $420K | bsc | Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attack / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1055 | Unlock Protocol | $416K | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1056 | RAI Finance | $414K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1057 | Dango | $410K | dango | Donate Negative Amounts Hack | — | View → | |
| 1058 | Nut2Earn | $410K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1059 | Fake EigenLayer | $405K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1060 | Syndicate | $400K | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1061 | MetaPool | $400K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1062 | Cardex | $400K | abstract | Private Key Compromised (Session signer) | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1063 | Fake Polyhedra Network | $400K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1064 | HEGE coin | $400K | - | Rugpull | — | — | |
| 1065 | WePiggy | $400K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1066 | BlackWallet | $400K | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1067 | Leverage X | $400K | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1068 | Cezar Hard Fork | $399K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1069 | phishing | $394K | - | Phishing | Phishing Attacks | View → | |
| 1070 | Silo V2 | $392K | arbitrum | Misconfigured Oracle Exploit | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 1071 | Ploutos Money | $390K | ethereum | Rugpull / Oracle Misconfiguration Exploit / Misconfigured Oracle Exploit | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 1072 | Dollar | $383K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1073 | MetaFinanceDAO | $380K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1074 | Impermax V3 | $380K | base | Zero-Rate Hack / Other | — | View → | |
| 1075 | DEFIBase | $379K | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1076 | unshETH | $375K | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1077 | PREMINT | NFT | $375K | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1078 | Linda Yaccarino | $375K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1079 | Ploutoz Finance | $372K | - | Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 1080 | opyn | $371K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1081 | Do Right | $371K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1082 | Themis Protocol | $370K | arbitrum | Flashloan Price Oracle Attack / Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 1083 | Cauldron | $370K | - | Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 1084 | Bitcoin Rain | $370K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1085 | ForceDAO | $367K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1086 | XSTABLE Protocol | $367K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1087 | Custom Lending Pool | $366K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1088 | Smurfs Coin | $366K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1089 | Hype Bet Finance | $364K | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1090 | Miss Universe NFT | $360K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1091 | bZx | $356K | ethereum | Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 1092 | SIR | $355K | ethereum | Transient storage collision / Other | — | View → | |
| 1093 | Fake ether.fi | $354K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1094 | PolBase Cash | $354K | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1095 | Edel Finance | $353K | - | Oracle Issue | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 1096 | Ribbon Finance | $351K | - | Phishing | Phishing Attacks | View → | |
| 1097 | Kalax | $350K | blast | Drain Vaults | — | View → | |
| 1098 | Sumer.Money | $350K | - | Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 1099 | Zircon Gamma | $350K | bsc, moonriver | Flashloan Pool Shares Exploit | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 1100 | Ooki | $350K | ethereum | Flashloan Slippage Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | 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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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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