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Cryptocurrency News Articles
Cryptocurrency Ecosystem Lost $313.86 Million to Hackers and Phishing Attacks in August
Sep 01, 2024 at 10:49 pm
The amount of cryptocurrencies lost to hackers and phishing attacks significantly increased in August while the market wandered in uncertainty.
Blockchain security firm PeckShield has highlighted a substantial increase in cryptocurrency losses due to hacks and phishing attacks during August.
According to the firm's recent post on August crypto hacks, over $313.86 million was lost in more than 10 separate hacking incidents last month.
Of this total, phishing attacks accounted for over $293 million, making them the primary method used by fraudsters to pilfer crypto assets.
PeckShield's post on August crypto hacks also noted that phishing attacks were responsible for the two largest hacks, both involving unauthorized transfers.
These two hacks alone resulted in the theft of $293.4 million, highlighting the effectiveness of phishing scams in targeting large crypto holders.
The total losses incurred by crypto and decentralized finance companies to hackers amounted to $266 million, as reported by crypto.news.
This figure was spread across 16 separate hacking events, indicating a high frequency of attacks throughout the month.
Among the notable victims was a whale who lost 4,064 Bitcoin (BTC), valued at approximately $238 million, in a phishing attack on August 19.
The attacker swiftly moved the stolen BTC to several crypto platforms, including THORChain, KuCoin, and Railgun.
Another significant hack targeted a whale's Dai (DAI) stablecoin holdings, resulting in a loss of over $55 million.
On-chain data revealed that the funds were initially stored within Maker, the fourth-largest DeFi protocol.
Further analysis showed that the hacker swapped the stolen DAI for Ethereum (ETH) and had no remaining assets at the address used in the attack.
Ronin Network also fell victim to a large-scale hack on August 6, with a malicious 4,000 ETH transaction, valued at $10 million, being processed.
However, this incident was not perpetrated by fraudulent actors. Instead, whitehat hackers exploited a Maximum Extractable Value bug.
The whitehat hackers returned the stolen ETH and alerted Ronin Network's developers to the bug, leading the company to hint at a $500,000 reward for their efforts.
Rounding out the list of August's biggest crypto hacks were another unauthorized transaction, this time for $5.1 million, and Nexera's $1.8 million exploit, as reported by PeckShield.
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