Hack history / Monthly reports / 2020-09
Crypto hacks and thefts, September 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
$429.3M
19 thefts
vs the month before
+51%
+51% ($283.9M)
vs a year earlier
67×
67× ($6.4M)
Largest thefts
KuCoin 26 · Hot Wallet Key Compromised$281MArbistar 16 · Scam$120MEminence 28 · Spot Price Manipulation$15MEterbase 08 · Hot Wallet Key Compromised$5.4MLV Finance 20 · Rug Pull$4MEMD 09 · Rug Pull$2.5MCoral 10 · Reentrancy$420KChainlink 04 · Spam attacks$270KSYFI 10 · Arithmetic Error$250KSoft Finance 09 · Unknown$250K
How attackers got in
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 4$286.7M
Phishing and scams 1$120M
Price, oracle and governance 1$15M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 4$6.6M
Smart contract bug 7$1.1M
Other 2$0
By chain
Ethereum 10$306.3M
not stated 4$120M
Bitcoin 1$5.4M
XRP 1$5.4M
Tezos 1$5.4M
Algorand 1$5.4M
Tron 2$5.4M
EOS 3$2.9M
By target
Centralized exchange 2$286.4M
not stated 13$127.1M
DeFi protocol 4$15.8M
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, September 2020", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2020-09/ (data as of 2026-11-01).