Hacks
Crypto hacks using Phishing
Data as of 3 October 2026
29 recorded incidents using Phishing took $1.0B in total between 2015 and 2026. The largest was FTX, $450.0M in 2022. That is 2.2% of all incidents in DefiLlama's record and 4.9% of the value lost. Amounts are the losses DefiLlama records, and its record does not say whether they are before or after any recovery. Data as of 3 October 2026.
By year, using Phishing
- 2015 $5.2M lost1 incidents
- 2016 $0 lost0 incidents
- 2017 $0 lost0 incidents
- 2018 $0 lost0 incidents
- 2019 $0 lost0 incidents
- 2020 $271K lost1 incidents
- 2021 $64.0M lost4 incidents
- 2022 $625.5M lost11 incidents
- 2023 $3.8M lost2 incidents
- 2024 $315.5M lost6 incidents
- 2025 $17.6M lost3 incidents
- 2026 $100K lost1 incidents
Incidents using Phishing
| Date | Incident | Class | Technique | Chains | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-14 | Zerion Wallet | Social Engineering | Phishing | — | $100K |
| 2025-11-20 | GANA Payment | Social Engineering | Phishing | BSC | $3.1M |
| 2025-11-11 | Polymarket | Social Engineering | Phishing | Polygon, Ethereum | $500K |
| 2025-07-24 | WOO X | Social Engineering | Phishing | Bitcoin, Ethereum, Arbitrum, BSC | $14.0M |
| 2024-07-12 | CoinStats | Social Engineering | Phishing | — | $2.2M |
| 2024-05-31 | DMM Bitcoin | Social Engineering | Phishing | Bitcoin | $305.0M |
| 2024-05-16 | ALEX | Social Engineering | Phishing | Stacks | $4.3M |
| 2024-04-15 | Grand Base | Social Engineering | Phishing | Base | $1.7M |
| 2024-02-28 | Serenity Shield | Social Engineering | Phishing | Ethereum | $586K |
| 2024-01-22 | Concentric | Social Engineering | Phishing | Arbitrum | $1.7M |
| 2023-12-04 | Stargate Finance | Social Engineering | Phishing | Ethereum | $43K |
| 2023-03-30 | Rocket Pool | Social Engineering | Phishing | Ethereum | $3.8M |
| 2022-11-12 | FTX | Social Engineering | Phishing | Ethereum, Solana | $450.0M |
| 2022-10-23 | Layer2DAO | Social Engineering | Phishing | Optimism | $190K |
| 2022-09-20 | Wintermute | Social Engineering | Phishing | Ethereum | $160.0M |
| 2022-07-11 | Uniswap (Phishing Attack) | Social Engineering | Phishing | Ethereum | $8.0M |
| 2022-06-04 | BAYC/Otherside | Social Engineering | Phishing | Ethereum | $257K |
| 2022-05-18 | Seth Green NFTs | Social Engineering | Phishing | Ethereum | $300K |
| 2022-05-11 | X2Y2 | Social Engineering | Phishing | Ethereum | $200K |
| 2022-04-21 | Terra (LUNA) | Social Engineering | Phishing | Terra Classic | $4.3M |
| 2022-03-28 | Cryptovoxels | Social Engineering | Phishing | Ethereum | $171K |
| 2022-02-20 | OpenSea | Social Engineering | Phishing | Ethereum | $2.0M |
| 2022-01-15 | CityDAO | Social Engineering | Phishing | Ethereum | $95K |
| 2021-12-23 | Monkey Kingdom | Social Engineering | Phishing | Solana | $1.3M |
| 2021-12-08 | 8ightDAO | Social Engineering | Phishing | Harmony | $1.8M |
| 2021-11-05 | Ooki | Social Engineering | Phishing | Polygon, BSC | $55.0M |
| 2021-07-15 | Bondly | Social Engineering | Phishing | Ethereum | $5.9M |
| 2020-11-06 | Ledger | Social Engineering | Phishing | Multiple | $271K |
| 2015-01-05 | Bitstamp | Social Engineering | Phishing | Bitcoin | $5.2M |
Source: DefiLlama, retrieved 3 October 2026, under its open methodology. Figures are a dated snapshot, not a live feed.