Hack history / Monthly reports / 2026-04
Crypto hacks and thefts, April 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
$648.5M
50 thefts
vs the month before
13×
13× ($51M)
vs a year earlier
+22%
+22% ($532.9M)
Largest thefts
Kelp 18 · Cross-Chain Message Spoofing$293MDrift Trade 01 · Proxy Upgrade Hijack$285MRhea Lend 16 · Spot Price Manipulation$18.4MGrinex 16 · Hot Wallet Key Compromised$13.7MUsers lose $9.5 million to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store 13 · Hack or exploit$9.5MWasabi Perps 30 · Deployer Key Compromised$5.5MSweat Foundation 29 · Withdrawal Logic Flaw$3.5MVolo Vault 21 · Private Key Compromised$3.5MHyperbridge 12 · Forged Proof$2.5MDango 13 · Missing Input Validation$1.9M
How attackers got in
Smart contract bug 26$299.1M
Bridge and cross-chain 3$295.9M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 10$23.9M
Price, oracle and governance 5$19.3M
Other 4$10.1M
Phishing and scams 1$100K
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 1$10K
By chain
Ethereum 17$319.3M
Arbitrum 5$296.7M
Solana 1$285M
NEAR 2$21.9M
Tron 1$13.7M
Base 8$9.9M
not stated 9$9.6M
BNB Chain 10$5.7M
By target
DeFi protocol 27$623.5M
Centralized exchange 1$13.7M
not stated 15$10.4M
Token 3$427K
Chain 2$334K
Wallet 2$100K
Collapses and frauds, counted apart
1 cases, $96M.
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, April 2026", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2026-04/ (data as of 2026-10-31).