Hack history / Monthly reports / 2022-11
Crypto hacks and thefts, November 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
$738.2M
40 thefts
vs the month before
−22%
−22% ($946.1M)
vs a year earlier
+260%
+260% ($205.3M)
Largest thefts
FTX 12 · Phishing$477MPando exploited for $20 million 06 · Hack or exploit$70MEarly crypto investor loses $42 million in wallet compromise 10 · Hack or exploit$42MDeFiAI 14 · Rug Pull$40MDeribit 01 · Hot Wallet Key Compromised$28MPando Rings 06 · Spot Price Manipulation$22MFlare 14 · Rug Pull$18.5MpNetwork 04 · Configuration Error$10.8MpNetwork 03 · Key Leaked via Infrastructure$4.3MOver $4 million drained from DeFiAI 12 · Hack or exploit$4.2M
How attackers got in
Phishing and scams 3$485M
Other 7$117.2M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 4$59.2M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 4$33.7M
Price, oracle and governance 6$24.7M
Bridge and cross-chain 2$10.8M
Smart contract bug 14$7.7M
By chain
Ethereum 10$483.7M
Solana 3$479.5M
not stated 8$159M
BNB Chain 18$69.3M
Mixin 1$22M
NEAR 1$3M
Optimism 1$7K
By target
Centralized exchange 2$505M
not stated 19$184.9M
DeFi protocol 13$37.4M
Bridge 1$10.8M
Wallet 1$170K
Token 4$39K
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
2 cases, $10.00B.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, November 2022", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2022-11/ (data as of 2026-10-31).