Hack history / Monthly reports / 2022-04
Crypto hacks and thefts, April 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
$421.5M
45 thefts
vs the month before
−42%
−42% ($726.3M)
vs a year earlier
−84%
−84% ($2.61B)
Largest thefts
Beanstalk 16 · Flashloan Governance Attack$182MRari Capital 30 · Reentrancy$80MAkutars 23 · Contract Vulnerability$34MIchi token plummets 90% after Rari liquidity pool is emptied 11 · Hack or exploit$30MElephant Money 12 · Spot Price Manipulation$22.2MInverse Finance Frontier 02 · Spot Price Manipulation$15.6MDEUS Finance 27 · Spot Price Manipulation$13.4MSaddle Finance 30 · Swap Logic Flaw$10.5MPhishing sites appearing to be the "Otherside" Bored Ape land project steal NFTs valued at $6 million 30 · Scam$6.1MTerra (LUNA) 21 · Phishing$4.3M
How attackers got in
Price, oracle and governance 8$233.2M
Smart contract bug 8$131.9M
Other 9$36.2M
Phishing and scams 8$13.8M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 5$5.7M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 6$356K
Bridge and cross-chain 1$328K
By chain
Ethereum 17$341.5M
Arbitrum 1$80M
not stated 10$33.6M
BNB Chain 12$28.1M
Fantom 2$13.6M
Terra 1$4.3M
Solana 1$240K
Avalanche 1$129K
By target
DeFi protocol 10$329.8M
not stated 31$84.9M
Chain 1$4.3M
Token 1$1.9M
Bridge 1$328K
Gaming 1$320K
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
1 cases, $530M.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, April 2022", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2022-04/ (data as of 2026-10-31).