{
  "name": "CMZ Crypto Hack Statistics",
  "source": "Crypto Media Zone",
  "url": "https://cryptomediazone.com/crypto-hack-statistics/",
  "reuse": "Free to use with credit to Crypto Media Zone and a link to the URL above.",
  "method": "Counts incidents CMZ has investigated and written up. Each loss is the amount taken at the time of the hack; money later returned or frozen is not subtracted. Tokens minted out of nothing and never sold count as $0.",
  "updated": "2026-10-14",
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      "date": "2026-10-13",
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      "title": "Gamdom: Crypto Casino Loses Over $3M From Its Hot Wallets, Three Weeks After Duelbits",
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      "url": "https://cryptomediazone.com/hack-database/gamdom-hack/"
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      "date": "2026-10-09",
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      "title": "Ledger: $86M Reportedly Drained From Wallets Sold by a Southeast Asian Reseller",
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      "url": "https://cryptomediazone.com/hack-database/ledger-cryptobilis-86m-drain/"
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      "date": "2026-10-09",
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      "title": "XRP Ledger: A Bug Hidden Since 2015 Could Have Printed XRP Beyond the 100 Billion Cap",
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      "date": "2026-10-07",
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      "title": "79thVault: A $12.5M Drain Through Its Own Master Key, Then 92% Came Back",
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      "url": "https://cryptomediazone.com/hack-database/79thvault-exploit/"
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      "date": "2026-10-01",
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      "title": "NEAR Intents: $3.87M Drained, Then Handed Back After a 48-Hour Ultimatum",
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      "title": "MetaMask: Hackers Took Under $1,000, So It Pulled $1.4B of Ether Offline",
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      "title": "Bitget: Hackers Took $387.5 Million by Faking the Exchange's Own Paperwork",
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      "url": "https://cryptomediazone.com/hack-database/bitget-hack/"
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      "title": "Ostium: A Stolen Price-Feed Key Faked a $5,000 Bitcoin and Drained $23.75M",
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      "title": "Tangem: Ledger Researchers Reset Its Wallet Password With a Laser, and It Can Never Be Fixed",
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      "title": "Humanity Protocol: One Infected Laptop, Seven Keys, $36M Gone",
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      "title": "Zcash: Claude Opus Found in Hours What Auditors Missed for Four Years",
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      "title": "MEV Sandwich Attacks: The Invisible Tax on Every Trade",
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      "title": "Radiant Capital: Hacked in January, Fixed Everything, Then Hacked Again for $53M in October",
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      "title": "WazirX: Four Signers Approved a $235M Theft Without Seeing It",
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      "title": "DMM Bitcoin: Japan's Exchange Lost 4,502 Bitcoin in a Day and Never Recovered",
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      "title": "Gala Games: A Dormant Key Minted $216M of GALA Tokens",
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      "title": "Mixin Network: The $200M Cloud Heist",
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      "date": "2022-11-12",
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      "title": "The FTX Hack: $477M Vanishes as the Empire Falls",
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      "title": "Wormhole: $320M Stolen, Then Counter-Exploited Back",
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      "date": "2021-08-10",
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      "year": 2018,
      "title": "Coincheck: Japan's $530 Million Wake-Up Call",
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      "title": "The DAO: The $60M Hack That Split Ethereum in Two",
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