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Crypto hacks and thefts, October 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
$49M
16 thefts
vs the month before
−62%
−62% ($129.3M)
vs a year earlier
−67%
−67% ($150.3M)

Largest thefts

How attackers got in

Other 3$22.7M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 6$20.3M
Price, oracle and governance 1$3.4M
Smart contract bug 4$2.5M
Phishing and scams 2$18K

By chain

Ethereum 4$23.6M
Hyperliquid 1$21M
Solana 3$11.2M
Arbitrum 2$11.1M
Base 2$11M
Bitcoin 1$11M
Sui 1$3.4M
Linea 1$573K

By target

not stated 7$22.7M
DeFi protocol 6$17M
AI Agent 1$9.1M
Token 2$197K

Collapses and frauds, counted apart

1 cases, $11M.

Cite this pageSwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, October 2025", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2025-10/ (data as of 2026-10-31).
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