Hack history / Monthly reports / 2023-09
Crypto hacks and thefts, September 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
$602M
79 thefts
vs the month before
11×
11× ($52.8M)
vs a year earlier
+213%
+213% ($192.4M)
Largest thefts
Mixin Network 23 · Database Breach$200MJPEX 13 · Scam$194.3MCoinex 12 · Hot Wallet Key Compromised$70MStake.com 04 · Hot Wallet Key Compromised$41.3MStolen LastPass vaults possibly cracked to enable crypto thefts 05 · Hack or exploit$35MVictim loses around $24 million in phishing scam 06 · Scam$24MFortress Trust 07 · Key Leaked via Infrastructure$12MHtx Huobi 25 · Hot Wallet Key Compromised$8MWallet phished for $4.46 million in fake mining scam 20 · Scam$4.5MNima Capital accused of rug pull 04 · Rug pull$3.7M
How attackers got in
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 28$334.9M
Other 8$230.3M
Phishing and scams 4$28.5M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 19$6.3M
Smart contract bug 14$1.8M
Price, oracle and governance 5$190K
Bridge and cross-chain 1$4K
By chain
not stated 27$238.4M
Mixin 1$200M
Ethereum 30$161.4M
BNB Chain 19$112.9M
Polygon 3$111.3M
Bitcoin 3$82.5M
Tron 2$72.7M
Bitcoin Cash 2$72.7M
By target
Centralized exchange 7$287.5M
Other 2$241.3M
not stated 60$70.8M
DeFi protocol 7$2.3M
Bridge 1$39K
Wallet 2$0
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
1 cases, $0.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, September 2023", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2023-09/ (data as of 2026-10-31).