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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 151–200 of 3299 ranked incidents
| Rank | Project | Amount Lost | Date | Chain | Technique | Attack Guide | Source |
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| 151 | Digging for Gold | $39.0M | - | - | — | View → | |
| 152 | Alpha Finance | $37.5M | ethereum | Flashloan Pool Shares Exploit / Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 153 | CoinsPaid | $37.3M | - | Social Engineering / Other | Phishing Attacks | View → | |
| 154 | Humanity Protocol | $36.4M | - | - | — | View → | |
| 155 | Cream Finance | $36.2M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 156 | Upbit | $36.0M | solana | Private Key Compromised / Other | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 157 | IRA Financial | $36.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 158 | Vee Finance | $36.0M | avalanche | Flashloan Price Oracle Attack / Other | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 159 | Scream | $35.0M | - | Oracle Issue | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 160 | Crypto.com | $34.4M | bitcoin, ethereum | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 161 | Parity | $34.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 162 | Harvest Finance | $33.8M | ethereum | Flashloan Price Oracle Attack / Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 163 | Ackerman Ponzi | $33.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 164 | PlayDapp | $32.4M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 165 | DEFI100 | $32.0M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 166 | Meerkat Finance | $32.0M | binance, bsc | Drained Contracts / Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 167 | Bitpoint | $32.0M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 168 | Fintoch | $31.7M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 169 | MonoX | $31.4M | ethereum, polygon | Swap Function Exploit / Other | — | View → | |
| 170 | Humanity Protocol | $31.0M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 171 | Tether | $31.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 172 | Spartan Protocol | $30.5M | binance | Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 173 | Spartan | $30.5M | bsc | Flashloan Pool Shares Exploit | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 174 | SnowdogDAO | $30.0M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 175 | Bithumb | $30.0M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 176 | Herencia Artifex | $29.6M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 177 | Transit Swap | $28.9M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 178 | Deribit Exchange | $28.3M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 179 | BigONE | $28.0M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 180 | Deribit | $28.0M | - | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 181 | Aave V3 | $27.8M | ethereum | CAPO Oracle Misconfiguration | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 182 | Wintermute | $27.6M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 183 | Wintermute | $27.6M | optimism | Cross Chain Multisig Deployment Exploit | — | View → | |
| 184 | Paid Network | $27.4M | ethereum | Infinite Mint and Dump / Other | — | View → | |
| 185 | Bitmarket | $27.1M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 186 | Binance User | $27.1M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 187 | Penpie | $27.0M | ethereum | Reentrancy | Reentrancy | View → | |
| 188 | StableMagnet | $27.0M | binance, bsc | Drained Contracts and User Wallets / Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 189 | Truebit | $26.5M | ethereum | Bonding Curve Exploit / Other | — | View → | |
| 190 | Huobi | $26.4M | ethereum | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 191 | Fixed Float | $26.1M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 192 | MEV Boost Exploit | $26.1M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 193 | FixedFloat | $26.1M | bitcoin, ethereum | Private Key Compromised | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 194 | Kronos Research | $26.0M | ethereum | API Key unauthorized access | — | View → | |
| 195 | Coinbin | $26.0M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 196 | ThalaSwap | $25.5M | aptos | Drained Liquidity Pool | — | View → | |
| 197 | Lendf.me | $25.2M | ethereum | Reentrancy / Other | Reentrancy | View → | |
| 198 | Indodax | $25.2M | ethereum, optimism, polygon | Access Control Exploit / Other | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 199 | Resolv Labs | $25.0M | - | - | — | View → | |
| 200 | Resolv | $25.0M | ethereum | Private Key Compromised / Access Control | Access Control 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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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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