Hack history / 2021 / Fraud
Africrypt investors disappear with $3.6 billion of investor funds
Fraud on Apr 13, 2021
IN REVIEWONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$3.60B
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
not ranked
collapses, frauds and later news are not ranked
What happened
No description from DefiLlama or SlowMist; see the sources below.
In review: single source for a loss of $500M or more.
Details
- Date
- Apr 13, 2021
- Kind
- Fraud
- Method
- not stated
- How in
- Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- Bitcoin
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Africrypt investors disappear with $3.6 billion of investor funds fraud, Apr 13, 2021: $3.60B lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht25bbc81c67/ (data as of 2026-10-31).