Top 10 Cryptocurrency Hacks of 2025...Approximately $2.2 Billion in Damage

Cryptocurrency news outlet The Block compiled a list of the top 10 hacking incidents in the industry last year. The damages from these top 10 hacks amounted to approximately $2.2 billion. Below is a summary from Coinness. 1. Bybit, February 21, $1.4 billion: Private key theft and phishing, suspected to be Lazarus 2. Cetus (CETUS), May 22, $223 million: Liquidity theft using fake tokens and logic errors 3. Balancer (BAL), November 3, $128 million: Exploiting a stablecoin pool operation error bug 4. Bitget (Bitget), April 20, $100 million: Market making bot logic flaw and price manipulation 5. Phemex (Phemex), January 23, $85 million: Hot wallet private key leak 6. Nobitex (Nobitex), June 18, $80 million: Hot wallet hack and internal data leak 7. Infini (Infini), February 24, $49.5 million: Smart contract 8. BtcTurk, August 14, $48 million: Hot wallet private key leak 9. CoinDCX, July 19, $44.2 million: Server intrusion 10. GMX, July 9, $42 million: Exploiting a vulnerability in the LP pool smart contract