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Crypto hacks and thefts, March 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
$51M
44 thefts
vs the month before
+79%
+79% ($28.5M)
vs a year earlier
−35%
−35% ($78.1M)

Largest thefts

How attackers got in

Keys, accounts and infrastructure 8$24.5M
Smart contract bug 21$9.3M
Other 6$9M
Price, oracle and governance 9$8.2M

By chain

Ethereum 12$29.3M
BNB Chain 14$11.5M
Bitcoin 2$6.4M
not stated 6$4.9M
Polygon 3$920K
Base 3$303K
Solana 2$284K
Arbitrum 2$176K

By target

DeFi protocol 21$40.1M
not stated 20$10.5M
NFTfi 1$230K
Other 1$127K
ICO 1$30K
Cite this pageSwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, March 2026", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2026-03/ (data as of 2026-10-31).
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