Hack history / Monthly reports / 2023-08
Crypto hacks and thefts, August 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
$52.8M
44 thefts
vs the month before
−89%
−89% ($492.8M)
vs a year earlier
−83%
−83% ($310.7M)
Largest thefts
PEPE 26 · Admin Drain$15.1MExactly 18 · Improper Access Control$7.5MMagnate Finance 25 · Treasury Misappropriation$6.4MBlockchain Capital 09 · Account Compromise$6.3MZunami Protocol 13 · Spot Price Manipulation$2.1MBalancer V2 27 · Spot Price Manipulation$2MSOL Big Brain 26 · Phishing Attack$1.5MSteadefi 08 · Deployer Key Compromised$1.2MCypher 07 · Spot Price Manipulation$1MFake "LayerZero" Token 21 · Rug Pull$1M
How attackers got in
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 8$24.4M
Smart contract bug 6$8.9M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 11$8.9M
Price, oracle and governance 9$6.2M
Phishing and scams 5$2.7M
Other 5$1.6M
By chain
Ethereum 24$41.2M
Base 4$8.3M
not stated 10$8M
Optimism 1$7.5M
BNB Chain 6$2.1M
Solana 2$1.4M
Comdex 1$250K
Polygon 1$65K
By target
DeFi protocol 11$22.5M
Token 3$15.1M
not stated 28$14.8M
Other 1$324K
Wallet 1$0
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
4 cases, $210.8M.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, August 2023", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2023-08/ (data as of 2026-10-31).