Hack history / Monthly reports / 2025-01
Crypto hacks and thefts, January 2025
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
$100.4M
48 thefts
vs the month before
+714%
+714% ($12.3M)
vs a year earlier
−60%
−60% ($248.7M)
Largest thefts
Phemex 23 · Hot Wallet Key Compromised$70MDogWifTools 28 · Key Stored Publicly$10MNoOnes 01 · Cross-Chain Message Spoofing$7.9MAdsPower 24 · Supply Chain Attack$4.7M$2.2 million stolen by fake job scammers 09 · Scam$2.2MMoby 08 · Private Key Compromised$1.5MTrump crossposting Twitter account advertises fake memecoins that make $1.25 million 21 · Hack or exploit$1.2MOrange Finance 08 · Private Key Compromised$840KIPC AI 07 · Swap Logic Flaw$590KThe Idols 14 · Reward Logic Flaw$324K
How attackers got in
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 22$87M
Bridge and cross-chain 1$7.9M
Phishing and scams 1$2.2M
Smart contract bug 16$1.8M
Other 5$1.4M
Price, oracle and governance 3$22K
By chain
Solana 5$89.2M
Ethereum 10$80.9M
BNB Chain 11$78.7M
Tron 2$77.9M
Arbitrum 4$72.3M
Optimism 2$70.3M
Base 5$70.2M
XRP 1$70M
By target
Centralized exchange 1$70M
DeFi protocol 9$11.1M
Other 1$10M
not stated 36$8.6M
Token 1$590K
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
6 cases, $11.4M.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, January 2025", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2025-01/ (data as of 2026-10-31).