Beosin: Q3 Web3 field lost approximately US$890 million due to security incidents, exceeding the total loss in the first half of the year

Odaily Planet Daily News Beosin released the 2023 Q3 Global Web3 Security Report. The key points are as follows: - Q3 The total losses in the Web3 field due to hacker attacks, phishing scams and Rug Pull incidents reached US$889.26 million; - The amount of losses in Q3 exceeds the total losses in the first half of 2023 (losses in Q1 and Q2 are approximately US$330 million and US$333 million respectively); - A total of 43 major security incidents occurred during the quarter, resulting in losses of US$540.16 million. Among them, 29 cases occurred in the DeFi field, accounting for approximately 67.4%. These 29 DeFi attacks caused a total loss of US$98.23 million, ranking second among all project types; - Classified by attack type: 9 private key leak incidents caused losses of US$223 million; The Mixin Network security incident resulted in a loss of US$200 million; 22 contract vulnerabilities resulted in losses of approximately US$93.27 million.