Hack history / Monthly reports / 2020-02
Crypto hacks and thefts, February 2020
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
$49.1M
11 thefts
vs the month before
+181%
+181% ($17.5M)
vs a year earlier
+44%
+44% ($34.1M)
Largest thefts
Josh Jones 22 · SIM card is hacked$45MTrinity Wallet 12 · CDN Compromise$2MOoki 18 · Spot Price Manipulation$650KbZx 18 · Oracle Attack$645KOoki 15 · Spot Price Manipulation$350KbZx 15 · Oracle Attack$350KAltsbit 05 · Key Leaked via Infrastructure$70KLuckLambo104 03 · Unknown$2KFCoin 17 · ScamundisclosedVBITEX 17 · Unknownundisclosed
How attackers got in
Other 2$45M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 2$2.1M
Price, oracle and governance 4$2M
Smart contract bug 2$2K
Phishing and scams 1$0
By chain
not stated 4$45M
Ethereum 5$2.1M
IOTA 1$2M
Bitcoin 1$70K
Tron 1$2K
By target
not stated 3$46M
Wallet 2$2M
DeFi protocol 3$1M
Centralized exchange 3$70K
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, February 2020", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2020-02/ (data as of 2026-11-01).