Hack history / Monthly reports / 2018-11
Crypto hacks and thefts, November 2018
Thefts are hacks, exploits, phishing, scams and rug pulls, in dollars at the time. A single source for $500M or more waits for a second source before it counts.
Taken
$675K
16 thefts
vs the month before
−90%
−90% ($6.6M)
vs a year earlier
−100%
−100% ($181M)
Largest thefts
AurumCoin 12 · Risk Parameter Abuse$500KMyEosVegas 10 · Unknown$54KEOS Lelego 19 · Unknown$26KEOSDice 10 · Random number attack$25KEOSDice 04 · Unknown$25KHireVibes AirDropsDAC 12 · Private Key Compromised$14KAtidium 30 · Private Key Leakage$9KEOS.WIN 11 · Unknown$9KFFGame 08 · Unknown$7Knutsgambling 28 · Roll back attack$4K
How attackers got in
Price, oracle and governance 1$500K
Smart contract bug 7$122K
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 5$48K
Other 2$5K
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 1$0
By chain
AurumCoin 1$500K
EOS 13$175K
not stated 1$0
Bitcoin 1$0
Ethereum 1$0
By target
Layer 1 1$500K
not stated 8$94K
DeFi protocol 5$81K
Wallet 1$0
Centralized exchange 1$0
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, November 2018", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2018-11/ (data as of 2026-10-31).