Hack history / Monthly reports / 2024-01
Crypto hacks and thefts, January 2024
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
$248.7M
75 thefts
vs the month before
−9%
−9% ($273.3M)
vs a year earlier
14×
14× ($17.7M)
Largest thefts
Chris Larsen 31 · Private Key Leakage$112.5MMore than $58 million stolen in Twitter phishing schemes in January 31 · Scam$58.3MSomesing 27 · Unbacked Mint$11.6MCoinsPaid 06 · Hot Wallet Key Compromised$7.5MGamee 23 · Key Leaked via Infrastructure$7MAbracadabra Spell 30 · Rounding Error$6.5MGamma 04 · Spot Price Manipulation$6.2MWall Street Memes 25 · Third-party Vulnerability$6MRadiant V2 02 · Rounding Error$4.5MBungee 16 · Missing Input Validation$3.3M
How attackers got in
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 15$127.1M
Phishing and scams 7$65.3M
Smart contract bug 21$37M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 19$9M
Price, oracle and governance 3$8M
Other 10$2.3M
By chain
ripple 1$112.5M
not stated 19$62.8M
Ethereum 21$52.1M
BNB Chain 24$19.3M
Arbitrum 7$13.8M
Polygon 1$7M
Fantom 1$2.7M
Solana 2$2.1M
By target
not stated 54$191.7M
DeFi protocol 16$49.3M
Centralized exchange 3$7.6M
Wallet 2$0
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
1 cases, $0.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, January 2024", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2024-01/ (data as of 2026-10-31).