Hack history / Monthly reports / 2022-10
Crypto hacks and thefts, October 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
$946.1M
60 thefts
vs the month before
+392%
+392% ($192.4M)
vs a year earlier
+78%
+78% ($530.7M)
Largest thefts
Binance Bridge 06 · Proof Verifier Bug$570MFreeway halts withdrawals, accused of $160 million rug pull 23 · Rug pull$160MMango Markets V3 11 · Spot Price Manipulation$115MTransit Swap 01 · Missing Input Validation$24.9MUXD Protocol 12 · Affected by the Mango attack$20MTeam Finance 27 · Missing Input Validation$15.2MMoola Market 18 · Spot Price Manipulation$8.4MFTX & 3Commas 23 · Phishing attack$6MMonkey Drainer steals ~$1 million in 24 hours 25 · Hack or exploit$3.5MTulip Protocol 12 · Affected by the Mango attack$2.5M
How attackers got in
Bridge and cross-chain 3$570M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 4$161.9M
Price, oracle and governance 9$124.3M
Smart contract bug 26$71.7M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 9$10.4M
Other 6$5.6M
Phishing and scams 3$2.1M
By chain
BNB Chain 20$600.9M
not stated 12$161.4M
Solana 3$137.5M
Ethereum 23$57.9M
Celo 1$8.4M
Bitcoin 2$7.1M
RSK 1$1.1M
Polygon 2$220K
By target
DeFi protocol 20$746.2M
not stated 32$198.5M
Wallet 4$1.4M
Centralized exchange 2$70K
NFTfi 1$39K
Bridge 1$0
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
1 cases, $48K.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, October 2022", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2022-10/ (data as of 2026-10-31).