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Crypto hacks and thefts, March 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
$726.3M
47 thefts
vs the month before
+51%
+51% ($480.5M)
vs a year earlier
+501%
+501% ($120.8M)

Largest thefts

How attackers got in

Keys, accounts and infrastructure 5$626M
Smart contract bug 18$81.9M
Other 7$7.2M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 8$4.6M
Price, oracle and governance 2$3.8M
Phishing and scams 7$2.8M

By chain

Ethereum 25$646.9M
Solana 3$54.2M
Gnosis 2$11.7M
Fantom 4$7.1M
BNB Chain 6$5.6M
Fuse 1$4.7M
Arbitrum 1$1.4M
not stated 8$1.2M

By target

DeFi protocol 17$708.9M
not stated 28$16.4M
Token 1$820K
Gaming 1$171K
Cite this pageSwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, March 2022", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2022-03/ (data as of 2026-10-31).
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