Hack history / Monthly reports / 2026-01
Crypto hacks and thefts, January 2026
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
$385.7M
25 thefts
vs the month before
11×
11× ($35.4M)
vs a year earlier
+284%
+284% ($100.4M)
Largest thefts
Crypto holder loses $283 million to scammer impersonating wallet support 10 · Scam$282MStep Finance 31 · Private Key Compromised$40MTruebit 08 · Arithmetic Error$26.4MMatcha 25 · Frontend Compromise$13.4MSaga 21 · Infinite Mint$7MMakina 20 · Spot Price Manipulation$4.2MAperture LM 25 · Token Approval Abuse$3.7MYO Protocol 13 · Missing Slippage Check$3.6MUSDGambit and TLP 05 · Deployer Key Compromised$1.5MTMX TRIBE 05 · Arithmetic Error$1.4M
How attackers got in
Phishing and scams 1$282M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 7$55.2M
Smart contract bug 12$43.3M
Price, oracle and governance 1$4.2M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 1$1M
Other 3$63K
By chain
Bitcoin 1$282M
monero 1$282M
Litecoin 1$282M
Ethereum 6$58.3M
Solana 2$41M
Base 5$17.4M
Saga 1$7M
Polygon 2$3.9M
By target
not stated 8$283.1M
DeFi protocol 15$95.6M
Chain 1$7M
Centralized exchange 1$0
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
1 cases, $1.5M.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, January 2026", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2026-01/ (data as of 2026-10-31).