Hack history / Monthly reports / 2024-08
Crypto hacks and thefts, August 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
$79.2M
38 thefts
vs the month before
−73%
−73% ($294.9M)
vs a year earlier
+50%
+50% ($52.8M)
Largest thefts
Whale Hunter's Payday 20 · Scam$55.5MRonin Bridge 06 · Uninitialized Proxy$12MPolyNetwork 12 · Unknown$5MTrump-themed $DJT token rug-pulls, people blame Martin Shkreli or Barron Trump 06 · Rug pull$2MNorth Korean developers steal $1.3 million from crypto project treasury 07 · Hack or exploit$1.3MVowcurrency 13 · Improper Access Control$1.2MMcDonald 21 · Account Compromise$700KNexera 07 · Malware$449KConvergence 01 · Missing Input Validation$210KiVest 12 · Unknown$190K
How attackers got in
Phishing and scams 3$56M
Smart contract bug 11$18.8M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 1$2M
Other 2$1.4M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 17$840K
Price, oracle and governance 4$63K
By chain
Ethereum 14$69.4M
PolyNetwork 1$5M
Solana 4$2.7M
not stated 10$1.5M
BNB Chain 6$390K
Polygon 2$196K
Avalanche 2$56K
zkSync Era 1$0
By target
not stated 29$60M
DeFi protocol 7$18.9M
Token 1$190K
Centralized exchange 1$0
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
2 cases, $60M.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, August 2024", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2024-08/ (data as of 2026-11-01).