Hack history / Monthly reports / 2020-10
Crypto hacks and thefts, October 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
$49.3M
7 thefts
vs the month before
−89%
−89% ($429.3M)
vs a year earlier
4019×
4019× ($12K)
Largest thefts
How attackers got in
Price, oracle and governance 1$24M
Other 2$22.3M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 1$2.5M
Phishing and scams 2$427K
Smart contract bug 1$42K
By chain
Ethereum 5$27.1M
not stated 2$22.2M
By target
DeFi protocol 3$26.5M
Wallet 1$22M
not stated 2$510K
Centralized exchange 1$227K
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
1 cases, $15K.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, October 2020", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2020-10/ (data as of 2026-10-31).