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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 301–350 of 3299 ranked incidents
| Rank | Project | Amount Lost | Date | Chain | Technique | Attack Guide | Source |
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| 301 | THORChain | $10.7M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 302 | Kraken | $10.5M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 303 | Poly Network | $10.2M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 304 | DogWifTools | $10.0M | solana | Private Key Compromised (Malware) | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 305 | Gifto | $10.0M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 306 | Dego Finance | $10.0M | bsc, cronos, ethereum | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 307 | Arbix Finance | $10.0M | bsc | Drained Contracts / Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 308 | SharkTron | $10.0M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 309 | GateHub | $10.0M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 310 | Youbit | $10.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 311 | Cryptsy | $9.9M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 312 | Pizza | $9.9M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 313 | LiFi Finance | $9.7M | linea, metis, zksync era | Router Exploit via Infinite Approvals | — | View → | |
| 314 | Jeffrey Zirlin | $9.7M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 315 | Resupply | $9.6M | ethereum | Price Oracle Manipulation / Other | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 316 | zkLend | $9.6M | starknet | Empty Market Exploit / Other | — | View → | |
| 317 | BreedTech | $9.4M | - | Rugpull | — | — | |
| 318 | Cover Protocol | $9.4M | ethereum | Incentives Function Mistake / Other | — | View → | |
| 319 | MyAlgo | $9.2M | algorand | Cloudflare Key Compromised | — | View → | |
| 320 | Moola Market | $9.1M | celo | Price Oracle Attack / Other | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 321 | Yearn Finance | $9.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 322 | Yearn Ether | $9.0M | ethereum | yETH stablepool Exploit | — | View → | |
| 323 | DCF | $9.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 324 | dYdX V3 | $9.0M | ethereum | Price Manipulation Attack | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 325 | Trade.io | $9.0M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 326 | Punk Protocol | $8.9M | ethereum | Delegatecall Exploit / Other | Delegatecall & Call Injection Attacks | View → | |
| 327 | Safemoon | $8.9M | bsc | Access Control Exploit / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 328 | Zoth ZeUSD | $8.8M | ethereum | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 329 | ERC20 Permit | $8.8M | - | Phishing | Phishing Attacks | View → | |
| 330 | Crema Finance | $8.8M | solana | Access Control Exploit / Other | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 331 | Mt. Gox | $8.8M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 332 | Platypus Finance | $8.5M | avalanche | Flashloan Reentrancy Attack / Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 333 | WOOFi Swap | $8.5M | arbitrum | Price Oracle Manipulation / Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 334 | Bunni V2 | $8.4M | ethereum, unichain | Liquidity Distribution Function Exploit / Other | — | View → | |
| 335 | ALEX | $8.4M | stacks | malicious transfer() method | — | View → | |
| 336 | Zoth | $8.3M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 337 | Blizz Finance | $8.3M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 338 | Gamma | $8.2M | ethereum | Access Control Exploit | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 339 | Haven Protocol | $8.2M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 340 | bZx | $8.1M | ethereum | Other | — | View → | |
| 341 | IoTeX | $8.0M | ethereum | Private Key Compromised / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 342 | LI.FI | $8.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 343 | Bittensor | $8.0M | - | Private Key Compromised (Supply Chain Attack) / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 344 | HTX | $8.0M | ethereum | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 345 | BitKeep | $8.0M | - | Phishing | Phishing Attacks | View → | |
| 346 | Uniswap | $8.0M | - | Phishing | Phishing Attacks | View → | |
| 347 | Thorchain DEX | $8.0M | ethereum | Refund Logic Exploit / Other | — | View → | |
| 348 | Origin Protocol | $8.0M | ethereum | Flashloan Reentrancy Attack / Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 349 | LCX | $7.9M | ethereum | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 350 | Anyswap | $7.9M | - | 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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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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