Hack history / Crypto hacks against people and personal wallets
Crypto hacks against people and personal wallets
Every recorded theft against people and personal wallets: hacks, exploits, phishing, scams and rug pulls.
Taken
$1.58B
178 thefts
Largest
$282M
Crypto holder loses $283 million to scammer impersonating wallet support
Through keys and infrastructure
26%
of dollars taken
Largest thefts
Crypto holder loses $283 million to scammer impersonating wallet support 2026-01-10 · Scam$282MArbistar 2020-09-16 · Scam · Scam$120MCOLDCARD 2026-07-31 · Hack or exploit · Weak Key Generation$116MAtomic Wallet 2023-06-03 · Hack or exploit · Supply Chain Attack$100MLedger (Supply Chain) 2026-10-09 · Hack or exploit · Supply Chain Attack$93MBitcoiner socially engineered out of $91 million 2025-08-19 · Hack or exploit$91MWallet loses over $72 million to address poisoning 2024-05-03 · Hack or exploit$72.7MWhale Hunter's Payday 2024-08-20 · Scam$55.5MSelf Chain fires founder after $50 million scam allegations 2025-06-23 · Scam$50MBlockchain.info 2018-02-19 · Phishing · Phishing attack$50MEarly crypto investor loses $42 million in wallet compromise 2022-11-10 · Hack or exploit$42MCrypto holder loses $40 million to sophisticated phishing attack 2025-02-27 · Scam$40MVictim loses over $32 million to wallet drainer 2024-09-28 · Hack or exploit$32MParity 2017-07-19 · Hack or exploit · Uninitialized Proxy$30MWallet linked to Binance deployer loses $27 million in apparent hack 2023-11-12 · Hack or exploit$27M
Most recent
Bloom Trading Bot 2026-10-26 · Hack or exploit · Supply Chain Attack$953KFearless Wallet 2026-10-21 · Hack or exploit · Private Key Leakage$20KArgent-style Smart Wallet System 2026-10-19 · Hack or exploit · Smart Contract Vulnerability$60KQubic 2026-10-17 · Hack or exploit · Weak Key Generation$1.3MLedger (Supply Chain) 2026-10-09 · Hack or exploit · Supply Chain Attack$93MBV-7X 2026-09-20 · Hack or exploit · PhishingundisclosedBlink Wallet 2026-09-19 · Hack or exploit · Software FlawundisclosedRsETHSafeModule 2026-09-15 · Hack or exploit · Smart Contract Vulnerability$7.7MDCENT Wallet 2026-09-15 · Hack or exploit · Unknown$6.6MXRPH Wallet 2026-09-03 · Hack or exploit · Seed Phrase Leakage$452K
How attackers got in
Phishing and scams 90$762.5M
Keys, accounts and infrastructure 45$414M
Other 28$349.9M
Smart contract bug 11$50.2M
Bridge and cross-chain 2$512K
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses 2$0
By year
2026 25$552.4M
2025 12$219.3M
2024 24$229M
2023 36$203.2M
2022 45$85.8M
2021 11$15.8M
2020 14$178.2M
2019 6$0
2018 4$63.4M
2017 1$30M
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Crypto hacks against people and personal wallets", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/t/people/ (data as of 2026-11-01).