Hack history / Monthly reports / 2023-07
Crypto hacks and thefts, July 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
$492.8M
60 thefts
vs the month before
+286%
+286% ($127.5M)
vs a year earlier
+368%
+368% ($105.4M)
Largest thefts
Multichain 07 · Validator Key Compromised$126MMultichain drained of another $107 million days after previous theft 10 · Hack or exploit$107MAlphaPo 23 · Hot Wallet Key Compromised$60MCurve DEX 30 · Vyper Compiler Bug$51.4MCoinsPaid 22 · Impersonation Scam$37.3MAlchemix 30 · Affected by Vyper Vulnerability$35.3MBald 31 · Liquidity Rug$25.6MJPEG'd 30 · Reentrancy Attack$11.4MPoly Network 02 · Forged Proof$10MGMETA 18 · Rug Pull$3.6M
How attackers got in
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 9$186.8M
Smart contract bug 28$110.3M
Other 2$107M
Phishing and scams 4$39M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 8$36.2M
Bridge and cross-chain 3$10.9M
Price, oracle and governance 6$2.6M
By chain
Ethereum 25$200.2M
BNB Chain 20$146.4M
Moonriver 1$126M
Fantom 1$126M
not stated 12$120.3M
Bitcoin 2$97.3M
Tron 1$60M
Base 1$25.6M
By target
DeFi protocol 19$224.9M
not stated 32$168.2M
Centralized exchange 3$60M
Other 1$37.3M
Token 3$2.4M
NFTfi 1$3K
Wallet 1$0
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
1 cases, $0.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, July 2023", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2023-07/ (data as of 2026-11-01).