Hack history / Monthly reports / 2023-02
Crypto hacks and thefts, February 2023
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
$60.8M
38 thefts
vs the month before
+243%
+243% ($17.7M)
vs a year earlier
−87%
−87% ($480.5M)
Largest thefts
MyAlgo 27 · CDN Compromise$9.2MPlatypus Finance 16 · Unknown$8.5MFriendsies NFT project rug pulls 21 · Rug pull$5.3MEarning.farm 24 · Flash Loan Attack$5.2MZachxbt reports phishing scammer "Loyalist" has stolen more than $4 million since early 2022 16 · Scam$4MWebaverse discloses $4 million theft via a mysterious social engineering attack 06 · Hack or exploit$4MdForce Lending 09 · Read-Only Reentrancy$3.6MLarge Algorand holders have wallets drained 27 · Hack or exploit$3.3MOrion Pools 02 · Reentrancy$3MHope Finance 20 · Arbitrary External Call$2M
How attackers got in
Smart contract bug 19$24M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 3$9.4M
Other 5$8.7M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 4$7.7M
Price, oracle and governance 4$7M
Phishing and scams 3$4M
By chain
Ethereum 16$30.2M
Algorand 1$9.2M
BNB Chain 12$8.9M
Avalanche 1$8.5M
Arbitrum 6$8.1M
not stated 6$4.8M
Optimism 1$3.6M
Polygon 1$1.8M
By target
not stated 20$25.8M
DeFi protocol 14$25.5M
Wallet 2$9.2M
Token 2$253K
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
1 cases, $123.6M.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, February 2023", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2023-02/ (data as of 2026-10-31).