Crypto Hacks

What first looked like a prank turned into one of the biggest DeFi disasters of 2026 after Drift Protocol warned users not to deposit funds—confirming a massive exploit that drained up to $270 million from its platform.

A viral data leak tied to the director of the FBI-Kash Patel-has ignited a wave of memecoin scams on Pump.fun, with opportunistic traders launching dozens of tokens that surged and crashed by over 90% within hours.

A Maryland man allegedly drained $54 million from DeFi platform Uranium Finance through audacious smart contract hacks — then splurged the stolen crypto on rare trading cards and a piece of the Wright brothers’ airplane that went to the moon. Now, Jonathan Spalletta could spend decades behind bars.

Resolv Labs has paused its protocol after an exploit allowed an attacker to mint 80 million unbacked USR tokens, sending its dollar-pegged stablecoin into a sharp depeg and reigniting concerns over systemic risks in decentralized finance.

India’s leading crypto exchange, CoinDCX, has strongly rejected fraud allegations connected to a police investigation, claiming the case is part of a coordinated impersonation scheme in which scammers posed as the platform’s founders to defraud investors.

Developers behind the fast-rising OpenClaw are being targeted by a sophisticated phishing campaign promising thousands in fake “CLAW” tokens — the latest sign that attackers are zeroing in on the AI-crypto intersection.

Bitrefill has linked a March 1 cyberattack to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, revealing how a single compromised employee laptop allowed attackers to infiltrate its systems, drain funds, and access sensitive records.

The son of a federal contractor has been arrested after allegedly bragging online about a $46 million crypto heist that he had performed on the United States Marshals Service, a move that ultimately led to his downfall.

Bybit says its new AI-powered fraud detection engine prevented or disrupted more than $300 million in scam-linked crypto withdrawals in the fourth quarter of 2025. But unlike traditional hack recoveries, most of that money was never clawed back because it just never left.

The X account of scrap-metal billionaire and high-profile NFT investor Adam Weitsman was hacked Thursday and used to promote not one — but two — crypto scams, including a bogus forex trading course and a knockoff memecoin dubbed “Clawed Ape Yacht Club.”