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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
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Showing 201-250 of 3595 ranked incidents
| Rank | Project | Amount Lost | Date | Chain | Technique | Attack Guide | Source |
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| 201 | Bitcoin Gold | $18.0M | bitcoin gold | Majority-hash-power double spend | — | — | |
| 202 | DEUS Finance | $17.9M | fantom | Flashloan Price Oracle Attack / Flash Loan Attack / Spot Price Manipulation | Flash Loan Attacks | View → | |
| 203 | Flare Token | $17.0M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 204 | SwapNet | $17.0M | base, ethereum | Unlimited Approval Exploit / Other / Frontend Compromise | — | View → | |
| 205 | Monkey Drainer | $16.5M | - | Phishing | Phishing Attacks | View → | |
| 206 | GAMEE | $16.4M | polygon | Repository credential exposure | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 207 | AlexLab | $16.1M | stacks | Other / malicious transfer() method / Caller Impersonation | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 208 | Curio | $16.0M | ethereum | Voting Power Inflation / Delegatecall Hijack | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 209 | Indexed Finance | $16.0M | ethereum | Flashloan Price Oracle Attack / Other / Spot Price Manipulation | Flash Loan Attacks | View → | |
| 210 | Cryptopia | $16.0M | ethereum | Suspected private-key compromise | — | — | |
| 211 | Team Finance | $15.8M | ethereum | Migrate Function Mistake Exploit / Other / Missing Input Validation | — | View → | |
| 212 | Rari Capital | $15.7M | ethereum | Price Oracle Attack / Flash Loan Attack / Arbitrary External Call | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 213 | Inverse Finance Frontier | $15.6M | ethereum | Price Oracle Attack / Oracle Issue / Spot Price Manipulation | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 214 | SUPERFORTUNE AI | $15.2M | ethereum | Improper Access Control | Access Control Attacks | — | |
| 215 | Eminence | $15.1M | ethereum | Flashloan Price Oracle Attack / Flash Loan Attack / Spot Price Manipulation | Flash Loan Attacks | View → | |
| 216 | PEPE | $15.1M | ethereum | Admin Drain | — | — | |
| 217 | Starstream / Agora | $15.0M | ethereum | Other / Admin Drain | — | View → | |
| 218 | Electrum | $15.0M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 219 | Rain | $14.8M | bitcoin, ethereum, solana, xrp | Unauthorized Wallet Outflows | — | View → | |
| 220 | Holograph | $14.4M | ethereum | Infinite Mint and Dump / Other / Infinite Mint | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 221 | WOO X | $14.0M | arbitrum, bitcoin, bsc, ethereum | Social Engineering / Phishing | Phishing Attacks | View → | |
| 222 | Furucombo | $14.0M | ethereum | Delegatecall Exploit / Other / Delegatecall Hijack | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 223 | Grinex | $13.7M | ethereum, tron | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — | — | |
| 224 | M2 | $13.7M | bitcoin, ethereum, solana | Unauthorized Wallet Outflows | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 225 | Venus | $13.0M | - | Phishing | Phishing Attacks | View → | |
| 226 | Abracadabra Spell | $13.0M | arbitrum | Other / Liquidation Logic Flaw | — | View → | |
| 227 | GDAC | $13.0M | - | Suspected private-key compromise | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 228 | Bored Ape Yacht Club | $13.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 229 | pNetwork | $13.0M | bitcoin, bsc | Log Spoofing / Spoofed Event Log / Other | Cross-Chain Bridge Attacks | View → | |
| 230 | flash.sx / vaults.sx | $13.0M | eos | Reentrancy | Reentrancy | — | |
| 231 | 79thVault | $12.5M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 232 | Compounder Finance | $12.5M | ethereum | Drained Contracts / Rugpull / Admin Drain | — | View → | |
| 233 | Ionic Protocol | $12.3M | mode | Counterfeit LBTC collateral accepted through compromised asset onboarding | Phishing Attacks | View → | |
| 234 | Cork V1 | $12.0M | ethereum | Access control bypass via hook / Other / Improper Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 235 | Polter Finance | $12.0M | fantom | Flashloan Price Oracle Attack / Oracle Issue / Spot Price Manipulation | Flash Loan Attacks | View → | |
| 236 | Ronin Bridge | $12.0M | ethereum | MEV bot manipulation exploit / Uninitialized Proxy / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 237 | Defrost | $12.0M | avalanche | Oracle Manipulation / Privileged Collateral Configuration | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 238 | Triple-A | $11.8M | arbitrum, ethereum, tron | Access Control / Hot Wallet Key Compromised | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 239 | EXMO | $11.7M | multiple | Suspected private-key compromise | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 240 | LiFi Finance | $11.6M | linea, metis, zksync era | Router Exploit via Infinite Approvals / Token Approval Abuse / Other | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 241 | PrismaLST | $11.6M | ethereum | Flashloan Trove Manipulation / Missing Input Validation | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 242 | Verus | $11.6M | verus | Other / Forged Proof | — | View → | |
| 243 | Somesing | $11.6M | ethereum | Phishing / Compromised endpoint | Access Control Attacks | — | |
| 244 | Yearn Finance | $11.5M | ethereum | Flashloan Misconfiguration Exploit / Flash Loan Attack / Oracle Misconfiguration | Flash Loan Attacks | View → | |
| 245 | BitoPro | $11.5M | ethereum, polygon, solana, tron | Key Leaked via Infrastructure / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 246 | Garden | $11.4M | arbitrum, base, ethereum, solana | Solver SSH and Wallet Key Compromise | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 247 | Venus Protocol | $11.2M | bsc | Other / Stale Oracle Price | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 248 | Saddle Finance | $11.0M | ethereum | Flashloan Swap Logic Exploit / Other / Swap Logic Flaw | Flash Loan Attacks | View → | |
| 249 | ValueDefi | $11.0M | bsc, ethereum | Other / Arithmetic Error / Improper Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 250 | Yearn Finance | $11.0M | ethereum | Flashloan Price Oracle Attack / Flash Loan Attack / Spot Price Manipulation | Flash Loan 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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