Lost to scams worldwide in 2026
Live estimateAn estimated 369 billion US dollars lost to scams worldwide so far in 2026.
45 reports in Crypto & Web3, page 2 of 3
Payy NetworkCrypto
From the news
According to Web3 Is Going Great, Payy Network disclosed that a bridge contract was fully drained, netting attackers $1.8 million in users' deposits to Payy Network / Payy Wallet. Payy halted all activity after the attack. From the news: this case was opened from a report by W…
More MarketsCrypto
From the news
According to Web3 Is Going Great, an attacker manipulated More Markets' lending logic and emptied its reserve, taking $9.3 million. More Labs paused the protocol and said it was investigating. From the news: this case was opened from a report by Web3 Is Going Great and hasn't…
CoinDCXCrypto
From the news
According to DeFiLlama, crypto exchange CoinDCX suffered a hot wallet key compromise on TRON. About $16,000,000 was taken. From the news: this case was opened from a report by DeFiLlama and hasn't been verified by ScamMarketCap. If it happened to you too, add yourself to the c…
WAX Multi-Chain BridgeCrypto
From the news
According to DeFiLlama, the WAX Multi-Chain Bridge was exploited through missing input validation on Solana, Ethereum and WAX. About $90,500 was taken. From the news: this case was opened from a report by DeFiLlama and hasn't been verified by ScamMarketCap. If it happened to y…
InitiaCrypto
From the news
According to DeFiLlama, Initia was hit by an infinite mint token accounting exploit. About $2,600,000 was reported taken. From the news: this case was opened from a report by DeFiLlama and hasn't been verified by ScamMarketCap. If it happened to you too, add yourself to the case.
X100Crypto
From the news
According to DeFiLlama, X100 was hit by a flashloan governance attack on Ethereum. About $4,750,000 was reported taken. From the news: this case was opened from a report by DeFiLlama and hasn't been verified by ScamMarketCap. If it happened to you too, add yourself to the case.
Bloom Trading BotCrypto
From the news
According to DeFiLlama, Bloom Trading Bot was hit by a frontend and infrastructure supply chain attack on Solana. About $953,000 was reported taken. From the news: this case was opened from a report by DeFiLlama and hasn't been verified by ScamMarketCap. If it happened to you…
PolymarketCrypto
From the news
According to Web3 Is Going Great, Polymarket users lost an estimated $2.65 million in an exploit Polymarket blamed on a compromised third-party provider. Polymarket said affected users will be made whole. From the news: this case was opened from a report by Web3 Is Going Great…
Nomad Bridge hackCrypto
From the news
According to the Justice Department, Alexander Gurevich, 49, was extradited and appeared in the Northern District of California on a 2023 indictment. He is charged with exploiting the Nomad Bridge smart contract to steal $2.89 million in virtual currency. From the news: this c…
PlusTokenCrypto
Case file from public records
PlusToken, launched in China in 2018, promised members daily payouts from a crypto arbitrage trading platform that did not exist. A Chinese court found it was a pyramid scheme that drew in more than 2.6 million members across 3,293 layers and, between 2018 and June 2019, took…
BitfinexCrypto
Case file from public records
In August 2016 a hacker broke into the Bitfinex exchange and, through more than 2,000 unauthorized transactions, moved 119,754 bitcoin, then worth about $71 million, to a wallet he controlled. In February 2022 US authorities arrested New York couple Ilya Lichtenstein and Heath…
SafeMoonCrypto
Case file from public records
SafeMoon was a crypto token launched in March 2021 that charged a 10% fee on every trade, half of it sent to liquidity pools that investors were told were locked. Its market value rose above $5.7 billion within weeks. The SEC alleged that large parts of the pool were never loc…
ForsageCrypto
Case file from public records
Forsage, launched in January 2020, presented itself as a decentralized investment platform run by smart contracts on the Ethereum, Tron and BNB Smart Chain blockchains. US authorities allege it was a Ponzi and pyramid scheme in which investors profited by recruiting others and…
HyperVerse (HyperFund)Crypto
Case file from public records
HyperFund, also marketed as HyperVerse and HyperTech, sold online "memberships" from June 2020 that promised daily rewards of 0.5% to 1% until an investor's money doubled or tripled. It claimed the rewards came from large-scale crypto mining, but US prosecutors say it had no s…
Mt. GoxCrypto
Case file from public records
Mt. Gox, a Tokyo bitcoin exchange, filed for bankruptcy protection in February 2014 after saying it had lost nearly all of the 850,000 bitcoins it held, 750,000 of them belonging to customers. The coins were worth about $500 million at the time. In March 2014 it said it had fo…
QuadrigaCXCrypto
Case file from public records
QuadrigaCX, a Canadian cryptocurrency exchange, announced in January 2019 that its co-founder and chief executive, Gerald Cotten, had died in India the month before. Within weeks it stopped operating and sought creditor protection, saying it could not access customers' funds.…
ThodexCrypto
Case file from public records
Thodex, a Turkish cryptocurrency exchange, suspended trading in April 2021 and its website went dark, locking hundreds of thousands of investors out of their accounts. Local media reported that its founder, Faruk Fatih Özer, had flown abroad. Prosecutors charged 21 people and…
Terraform LabsCrypto
Case file from public records
TerraUSD (UST) was an "algorithmic stablecoin" that was supposed to hold a value of one dollar, supported by a sister token, LUNA. In May 2022 UST lost its peg and both tokens collapsed within days, wiping out about $40 billion in market value. Many holders had been drawn in b…
Celsius NetworkCrypto
Case file from public records
Celsius Network was a crypto lending platform that paid customers high "rewards" on deposits and told them their money was safe. In June 2022, as crypto prices fell, it froze all withdrawals. A month later it filed for bankruptcy, and more than 100,000 creditors claimed about…
BinanceCrypto
Case file from public records
On 29 October 2026, attackers took about $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance's hot wallets on ten blockchains. Most of it moved within about 20 minutes. It is the largest crypto theft on record, more than four times the $1.5 billion Bybit hack in 2025. On 31 October th…