Hack history / Monthly reports / 2022-05
Crypto hacks and thefts, May 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
$193.3M
49 thefts
vs the month before
−54%
−54% ($421.5M)
vs a year earlier
−50%
−50% ($385.8M)
Largest thefts
Mirror 26 · Improper Access Control$88MScream 16 · Stablecoin prices de-anchor$35MDrift Trade 11 · Risk Parameter Abuse$14.5MVenus Protocol 12 · Stale Oracle Price$11.2MBlizz Finance 13 · Stale Oracle Price$8.3MKronos DAO 19 · Insider Manipulation$6MPokemoney 28 · Rug Pull$3.5MFortress Loans 08 · Malicious Proposal$3MSuperlative Apes team does a "slow rug pull" after drawing in $2.9 million 30 · Rug pull$2.9MMirror Protocol 31 · Oracle Price Vulnerability$2M
How attackers got in
Smart contract bug 5$90.5M
Price, oracle and governance 10$42.5M
Other 6$35.6M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 11$18.4M
Phishing and scams 8$3.4M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 8$2.9M
Bridge and cross-chain 1$0
By chain
Terra 4$102M
Fantom 3$36.5M
BNB Chain 14$24.7M
Avalanche 2$19.5M
Ethereum 19$17.3M
Solana 1$14.5M
not stated 8$6M
Cronos 1$2M
By target
DeFi protocol 13$129.3M
not stated 31$61.5M
Token 1$1.9M
NFTfi 3$570K
Bridge 1$0
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
2 cases, $40.06B.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, May 2022", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2022-05/ (data as of 2026-10-31).