Hack history / Monthly reports / 2024-02
Crypto hacks and thefts, February 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
$562.9M
48 thefts
vs the month before
+126%
+126% ($248.7M)
vs a year earlier
+827%
+827% ($60.8M)
Largest thefts
PlayDapp 09 · Hot Wallet Key Compromised$290MMyanmar-based romance scam operation pulls in $100 million in less than two years 25 · Scam$100MBitForex 23 · Unknown$56.5MPlayDapp crypto gaming platform exploited, spurring misleading headlines 09 · Hack or exploit$36.5MFixedFloat 18 · Key Leaked via Infrastructure$26.1MRiskOnBlast gambling platform rug pulls for $1.3 million 25 · Rug pull$13.2MJihoz 23 · Private Key Leakage$10MSeneca 28 · Token Approval Abuse$6.4MDuelBits 13 · Malware$4.6MTrader loses $4.5 million in phishing attack 16 · Scam$4.5M
How attackers got in
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 8$329.8M
Phishing and scams 4$109.7M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 5$71.3M
Other 8$36.6M
Smart contract bug 19$13.5M
Price, oracle and governance 4$2M
By chain
Ethereum 29$399.2M
Tron 1$100M
not stated 9$61M
Bitcoin 1$26.1M
Arbitrum 2$6.7M
BNB Chain 6$5.7M
Acala 1$2.1M
Polkadot 1$2.1M
By target
DeFi protocol 13$328.3M
not stated 26$166M
Centralized exchange 2$61.1M
Token 5$4.3M
Other 1$3.3M
Wallet 1$0
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
2 cases, $56.5M.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, February 2024", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2024-02/ (data as of 2026-10-31).