Hack history / Monthly reports / 2025-08
Crypto hacks and thefts, August 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
$159.2M
36 thefts
vs the month before
+1%
+1% ($158M)
vs a year earlier
+101%
+101% ($79.2M)
Largest thefts
Bitcoiner socially engineered out of $91 million 19 · Hack or exploit$91MBtcTurk 14 · Hot Wallet Key Compromised$49MOdin.Fun 12 · Spot Price Manipulation$7MBetterBank 26 · Reward Logic Flaw$5MCrediX 04 · Private Key Compromised$4.5MTraders lose $1 million to malicious "trading bot" software 07 · Hack or exploit$1MCozy V2 30 · Missing Input Validation$427Knuma. 10 · Incorrect Share Accounting$313KCoinbase 13 · Token Approval Abuse$300KD3X AI 16 · Price Manipulation$159K
How attackers got in
Other 4$92.1M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 3$53.5M
Price, oracle and governance 6$7.3M
Smart contract bug 23$6.2M
By chain
Bitcoin 2$98M
Optimism 2$49.4M
Ethereum 12$49.4M
Base 4$49M
Arbitrum 6$49M
Polygon 2$49M
Avalanche 1$49M
Mantle 1$49M
By target
not stated 27$92.6M
Centralized exchange 2$49.3M
DeFi protocol 7$17.3M
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
1 cases, $0.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, August 2025", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2025-08/ (data as of 2026-11-01).