Hack history / Monthly reports / 2024-12
Crypto hacks and thefts, December 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
$12.3M
35 thefts
vs the month before
−84%
−84% ($75.7M)
vs a year earlier
−95%
−95% ($273.3M)
Largest thefts
Alpaca Finance proposes $50,000 restitution for $2.8 million in losses 10 · Hack or exploit$2.7MCrypto holder loses assets priced at $2.5 million 12 · Hack or exploit$2.5MGempad 17 · Reentrancy$1.9MFegex 29 · Cross-Chain Message Spoofing$1.1MFEG 29 · Security Vulnerability$1MClober Liquidity Vault 10 · Reentrancy$501KVestra DAO 04 · Staking Logic Flaw$500KClipper 01 · Deposit Logic Flaw$450KMoonhacker 23 · Flash Loan Attack$320KDeBox 02 · Private Key Leakage$275K
How attackers got in
Other 3$5.2M
Smart contract bug 17$4.1M
Bridge and cross-chain 2$2.1M
Price, oracle and governance 3$572K
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 9$275K
Phishing and scams 1$135K
By chain
Ethereum 11$8.7M
BNB Chain 13$7M
Base 7$3.9M
Bitcoin 1$2.5M
Optimism 2$770K
not stated 10$164K
Polygon 1$86K
By target
not stated 20$7M
DeFi protocol 9$4.9M
Token 6$390K
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, December 2024", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2024-12/ (data as of 2026-10-31).