Crypto Hacks 2026: 322 Incidents, Double Last Year, and One…
By Tobi Opeyemi Amure
AI summary of the source article
DefiLlama recorded 322 crypto hacks in 2026 totaling $8.734 billion, more than double the 2025 incident count. A single $6.36 billion exploit of Binance's hot wallet on October 29 accounted for 72.8% of the year's stolen value.
Why it matters
That classification matters, because Binance co-chief executive Richard Teng has said the company has “found no evidence of any wallet private key leak,” while TRM assesses that the attacker likely compromised Binance’s signing infrastructure.
Key facts
- DefiLlama reported 322 confirmed crypto hacks in 2026 totaling $8.734 billion, surpassing previous annual incident records.
- A hot wallet drain on Binance on 29 October accounted for $6.36 billion, or 72.8% of all funds stolen in 2026.
- Excluding the Binance exploit, the remaining 321 incidents totaled $2.374 billion, averaging $7.4 million each.
Source excerpt · FinanceFeeds
DefiLlama counted 322 confirmed crypto hacks in 2026 as of Friday, which it says is “already more than twice the total number of hacks last year” with two months still to run. The value taken across those incidents is $8.734 billion . A single entry accounts for $6.36 billion of the crypto hacks 2026 total. The Binance hot wallet drain on 29 October is 72.8% of everything stolen in crypto this yea…