Crypto industry hacking losses fall to $26.5 million in February 2026 as security improves and major exploits decline.

Crypto-related hacks drained more than $112m in the first two months of 2026, with January accounting for the bulk of losses and February showing a sharp pullback, new data from PeckShield shows.

A white hat hacker recovered 80% of the $2.26 million stolen from Foom Cash during last week’s exploit, illustrating the growing importance of ethical hackers in the blockchain space.

Foom Cash, a decentralized lottery protocol built on zero-knowledge proofs, said it has recovered the majority of funds lost in a $2.26 million exploit after ...

Update Jan. 16 at 11 pm: This article has been updated to include responses from CertiK and PeckShield. Losses to crypto scams, exploits and hacks tapered off in the last months of 2024, with December ...

Crypto losses spiked by 1,163% over April, with the lion’s share of lost crypto coming from a single heist of an elderly US individual’s wallet, says blockchain security firm CertiK. CertiK said in an ...

Hackers accelerated the laundering of funds in the second half of 2025, using DeFi protocols and Web3 infrastructure to fragment and disguise their haul. Highly liquid protocols were attacked the most ...

The first half of 2025 has marked a grim milestone for the cryptocurrency industry, with over $2.1 billion stolen across 75 distinct hacks and exploits, according to a recent report by TRM Labs. This ...

The world's second-largest crypto exchange Bybit suffered an exploit Friday that saw it drained of about $1.4 billion worth of Ethereum and staked ether. Bybit CEO Ben Zhou immediately shared news of ...

Losses from crypto scams, exploits and hacks tapered off in the last months of 2024, with December registering as the smallest month of hacks in the entire year. Blockchain security firm CertiK said ...