Hack history / Monthly reports / 2022-01
Crypto hacks and thefts, January 2022
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
$201.3M
40 thefts
vs the month before
−67%
−67% ($614.5M)
vs a year earlier
77×
77× ($2.6M)
Largest thefts
Qubit 27 · Missing Input Validation$80MCrypto.com 18 · Session Key Compromised$34MLympo 10 · Hot Wallet Key Compromised$18.7MAFKSystem 19 · Rug Pull$12MSolFire Finance 23 · Rug Pull$10MArbix Finance 04 · Admin Drain$10MLCX 08 · Key Leaked via Infrastructure$7.9MBored Bunny 06 · Rug Pull$6.8MTinyman 01 · Incorrect Share Accounting$3MCelebrity-promoted Rich Dwarves Tribe NFT project rug pulls for around $3 million 09 · Rug pull$2.9M
How attackers got in
Smart contract bug 8$87M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 5$60.6M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 20$52.2M
Price, oracle and governance 1$1.2M
Phishing and scams 2$136K
Other 4$103K
By chain
Ethereum 17$161.7M
BNB Chain 13$98.5M
Bitcoin 1$34M
Solana 3$11.2M
not stated 6$6.9M
Algorand 1$3M
DefiChain 1$0
By target
DeFi protocol 7$104.4M
not stated 26$42.3M
Centralized exchange 1$34M
NFTfi 2$19.7M
Gaming 1$770K
DAO 1$95K
Wallet 1$0
Chain 1$0
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
2 cases, $1.2M.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, January 2022", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2022-01/ (data as of 2026-10-31).