Mercado Bitcoin Multi-Chain Hot-Wallet Breach
Attackers drained the hot wallets of Brazil's largest crypto exchange across ten blockchains in under half an hour, making off with roughly $46 million in a clean run of validly signed transfers.
An archive of cryptocurrency security incidents — hacks, exploits, bridge failures and rug pulls, documented with on-chain evidence.
Attackers drained the hot wallets of Brazil's largest crypto exchange across ten blockchains in under half an hour, making off with roughly $46 million in a clean run of validly signed transfers.
An attacker hijacked a Binance Ethereum hot wallet via an EIP-7702 delegation and swept an estimated $6.3 billion across several chains — the largest theft in crypto history.
A server intrusion drained crypto casino Gamdom's hot wallets across several chains for roughly $4.2 million in a suspected key compromise.
An estimated $86 million was drained from Ledger users who bought devices from reseller CryptoBilis, in a suspected supply-chain attack that captured their seed phrases.
Attackers compromised Bitget's wallet backend to spoof withdrawals and drain roughly $387.5 million across eight blockchains, in 2026's largest crypto theft.
Attackers drained about $7 million from crypto casino Duelbits's hot wallets across five chains in a suspected private-key compromise, forcing the platform offline.
Attackers used compromised recovery phrases to sweep roughly 11.7 million XRP — about $18 million — from over 6,600 D'CENT App Wallet accounts across five chains.
An attacker abused Chainflip's Tron settlement path, appending a memo to an already-signed deposit to trigger duplicate payouts and drain 736,442 USDT.
Attackers drained roughly $7.9M in USDT and ETH from crypto payment processor Coinsbuy across Tron and Ethereum in a coordinated hot-wallet key compromise.
Coinspect disclosed 'Ill Bloom,' a weak-randomness flaw in some wallets' seed-phrase generation that let attackers brute-force keys and drain over $5 million.
Cross-chain aggregator Transit Finance lost ~$1.88M in DAI on May 13, 2026 — a second multi-million-dollar incident after its October 2022 proxy-approval breach.