Hack history / Monthly reports / 2024-05
Crypto hacks and thefts, May 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
$433.9M
41 thefts
vs the month before
+279%
+279% ($114.6M)
vs a year earlier
+594%
+594% ($62.6M)
Largest thefts
DMM Bitcoin 31 · Phishing$305MWallet loses over $72 million to address poisoning 03 · Hack or exploit$72.7MGala 20 · Infinite Mint$21.8MSonne Finance 14 · Donation Attack$20MALEX 15 · Phishing$4.3Mpump.fun 16 · Private Key Compromised$1.9MGeniusAI 05 · Social Account Takeover$1.3MNORMIE 26 · Unknown$882KOrion Protocol 28 · Improper Access Control$645KBloom 09 · Unknown$540K
How attackers got in
Phishing and scams 3$310.6M
Other 3$73M
Smart contract bug 24$47M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 5$1.9M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 5$1.4M
Price, oracle and governance 1$9K
By chain
Bitcoin 3$382M
Ethereum 17$123M
Optimism 1$20M
BNB Chain 14$6M
Stacks 1$4.3M
Solana 2$2.2M
Polygon 2$1.8M
Base 2$1.3M
By target
Centralized exchange 2$305M
not stated 18$75.1M
DeFi protocol 14$51.9M
Token 6$1.7M
NFTfi 1$181K
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
2 cases, $73M.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, May 2024", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2024-05/ (data as of 2026-10-31).