Hack history / Monthly reports / 2025-04
Crypto hacks and thefts, April 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
$532.9M
35 thefts
vs the month before
+582%
+582% ($78.1M)
vs a year earlier
+365%
+365% ($114.6M)
Largest thefts
$330 million in Bitcoin apparently stolen; laundering spikes Monero price by over 40% 27 · Hack or exploit$330.7MBitget 20 · Market Maker Bot Exploited$100MUPCX 01 · Proxy Upgrade Hijack$70MZapper 01 · DNS Hijack$7.9MKiloEx 14 · Spot Price Manipulation$7.5MLoopscale 26 · Spot Price Manipulation$5.8MZKsync 15 · Private Key Compromised$5MTerm Finance 26 · Oracle Misconfiguration$1.6MBitcoin Mission 22 · Improper Access Control$1.3MR0AR 16 · Improper Access Control$780K
How attackers got in
Other 5$330.7M
Price, oracle and governance 9$115.5M
Smart contract bug 14$72.7M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 5$13M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 2$877K
By chain
monero 1$330.7M
Bitcoin 1$330.7M
not stated 7$100.9M
Ethereum 14$93.2M
Base 4$15.8M
Arbitrum 3$9.7M
Optimism 1$7.9M
Polygon 1$7.9M
By target
not stated 19$332M
Centralized exchange 1$100M
DeFi protocol 14$95.9M
Other 1$5M
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
1 cases, $12M.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, April 2025", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2025-04/ (data as of 2026-10-31).