Hall of Shame
12 incidents, $18.9B gone. Every number is the dollar value at the time, and every report links its sources. The jokes are ours; the facts aren't.
FTX
No hacker needed. The call was coming from inside the house.
Binance
$6.3 billion in about twenty minutes. The biggest theft crypto has ever seen.
Bybit
The signers approved a transfer. The screen just didn't show them the real one.
Ronin Bridge
Nobody noticed for six days.
Poly Network
The hacker gave it back, got offered a job, and turned it down.
Coincheck
Half a billion dollars, sitting in a hot wallet.
Mt. Gox
The original. Creditors waited a decade.
Wormhole
120,000 ETH minted out of thin air.
Euler Finance
They stole $197 million, then said sorry and sent it back.
Nomad Bridge
The first crowd-sourced hack. Anyone could join.
Bitfinex
119,756 BTC, a rap career, and a 2022 arrest.
The DAO
So bad Ethereum split in two to undo it.