SwanBluechipMonthly reportsHack history
Hack history / Monthly reports / 2025-11

Crypto hacks and thefts, November 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
$263.3M
18 thefts
vs the month before
+438%
+438% ($49M)
vs a year earlier
+248%
+248% ($75.7M)

Largest thefts

How attackers got in

Smart contract bug 7$134.6M
Other 1$93M
Phishing and scams 4$33.9M
Price, oracle and governance 2$1.1M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 4$740K

By chain

Ethereum 8$123.6M
Base 5$123.2M
Optimism 3$122.2M
Polygon 2$121M
Arbitrum 1$120.5M
Sonic 1$120.5M
not stated 5$105.8M
Solana 2$30.4M

By target

DeFi protocol 11$127.1M
not stated 5$105.8M
Centralized exchange 1$30.3M
Token 1$130K

Collapses and frauds, counted apart

1 cases, $5M.

Cite this pageSwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, November 2025", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2025-11/ (data as of 2026-10-31).
← 2025-102025-12 →Open 2025 in the full list