Hack history / Monthly reports / 2026-10
Crypto hacks and thefts, October 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
$6.47B
52 thefts
vs the month before
+735%
+735% ($774.9M)
vs a year earlier
132×
132× ($49M)
Largest thefts
Binance CEX 29 · Key Leaked via Infrastructure$6.30BLedger (Supply Chain) 09 · Supply Chain Attack$93MCoinDCX 21 · Hot Wallet Key Compromised$16M79th Vault 07 · Private Key Leakage$12.5MPirate Chain 14 · Unbacked Mint$10.7MSafeApprovalSquat 26 · Misconfiguration$7.5MX100 24 · Flashloan Governance Attack$4.8MGamdom 13 · Key Leaked via Infrastructure$4.2MNEAR Intents 01 · Bridge Logic Flaw$3.8MPolymarket International 29 · Supply Chain Attack$2.7M
How attackers got in
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 17$6.44B
Smart contract bug 21$18.8M
Price, oracle and governance 4$7.1M
Bridge and cross-chain 3$4.6M
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 1$385K
Other 6$276K
By chain
Tron 3$6.32B
Arbitrum 5$6.32B
Ethereum 17$6.31B
Avalanche 3$6.31B
Bitcoin 2$6.30B
Optimism 2$6.30B
Base 5$6.30B
not stated 10$94.2M
By target
Centralized exchange 2$6.32B
Wallet 5$95.3M
not stated 18$22.7M
DeFi protocol 22$15.1M
Chain 2$13.3M
Gambling Platform 1$4.2M
Prediction Market 2$3.1M
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks and thefts, October 2026", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/m/2026-10/ (data as of 2026-10-31).