Hack history / Monthly reports / 2022-02
Crypto hacks and thefts, February 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
$480.5M
30 thefts
vs the month before
+139%
+139% ($201.3M)
vs a year earlier
+630%
+630% ($65.9M)
Largest thefts
Portal 02 · Signature Verification Flaw$326MPixelmon raises $70 million only to reveal hilariously bad NFTs 25 · Hack or exploit$70MIRA Financial / Gemini 12 · API Key Compromised$36MDego Finance 10 · Deployer Key Compromised$10MSuperfluid 08 · Missing Input Validation$8.7MBitbns 01 · Key Leaked via Infrastructure$7.5MMeter 06 · Missing Input Validation$4.3MOpenSea 20 · Phishing$3MBNB42 rug pulls for over $2.7 million 15 · Rug pull$2.8MTitano Finance 14 · Backdoor Contract$1.9M
How attackers got in
Smart contract bug 8$339.8M
Other 4$70.1M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 6$56.5M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 8$9.9M
Phishing and scams 3$3.8M
Price, oracle and governance 1$470K
By chain
Solana 3$326.7M
Ethereum 12$135.5M
Bitcoin 1$36M
BNB Chain 8$17.1M
Cronos 1$10M
Polygon 1$8.7M
not stated 4$7.5M
Klaytn 1$1.9M
By target
DeFi protocol 9$354.1M
not stated 16$78.8M
Centralized exchange 3$43.5M
NFTfi 1$3M
Gaming 1$1.1M
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
4 cases, $590K.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, February 2022", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2022-02/ (data as of 2026-10-31).