322 crypto hacks recorded in 2026, DefiLlama says
Analytics platform DefiLlama has recorded 322 confirmed crypto hacks in 2026. The firm says that total is already more than twice last year’s count, with two months still left. Its public hacks page listed $8.734 billion in losses across those incidents as of Oct. 30.
What happened
On Oct. 30, DefiLlama wrote that 2026 had already seen 322 confirmed crypto hacks and that the figure was “already more than twice the total number of hacks last year.” The tracker’s dashboard the same day put year-to-date losses at $8.734 billion and listed the largest case as Binance, at $6.36 billion in October.
That one entry accounts for most of the money. FinanceFeeds, using DefiLlama’s figures, calculated that Binance was about 72.8% of 2026 losses so far. The other 321 incidents totaled $2.374 billion, an average of about $7.4 million each, according to that analysis.
Binance has described the case as unauthorized withdrawals from hot wallets at about 20:05 UTC on Oct. 29, with a loss of approximately $6.3 billion. In an Oct. 30 support update, co-CEOs Yi He and Richard Teng said the exchange would cover the stolen funds through its user-protection fund and corporate treasury, and that about $3 billion had been frozen on-chain. Binance said an initial review pointed to a compromised laptop, then reported additional points of breach, and said it had found no evidence that wallet private keys were leaked. Reuters reported that analysts blamed North Korea; Binance has not publicly named an attacker.
DefiLlama files the Binance case under frontend and infrastructure, with the technique labeled key leaked via infrastructure. Smaller cases logged the same week include a Polymarket supply-chain attack at $2.7 million.
Why it matters
Incident counts are a cleaner year-to-year signal than dollar losses, because token prices change the value of what is stolen. FinanceFeeds, citing DefiLlama’s historical series, said 2026 is already the highest annual count on that record, ahead of a 2024 peak, and that 2025 came in below 2024.
CryptoBriefing, citing the same database in late September, put the full 2025 total at 148 incidents and roughly $2.72 billion. On that baseline, 322 is more than double. Until late October, the dollar story was different. An Oct. 24 note from Llama, describing DefiLlama’s database, still had 2026 at about $2.36 billion across 310 incidents, below 2025’s dollar total. The Oct. 29 Binance case changed that comparison in one night.
Other security firms do not use the same definition. For the first half of 2026, FinanceFeeds reported that Immunefi logged 207 incidents, CertiK counted 344, and SlowMist counted 182. The spread is a reminder that 322 confirmed hacks is DefiLlama’s count, not an industry-wide consensus.
What's next
Two months remain, so the incident total can still rise. DefiLlama’s hacks page noted that nine of the ten weeks before a market opened on Oct. 30 had included at least one hack of $1 million or more.
The loss figure is also unsettled. Binance has said users will not bear the financial impact and that about $3 billion is frozen, so net losses may fall if more assets are recovered. The exchange said it was working toward a phased restart of withdrawals and an initial proof-of-reserves result by Monday, Nov. 2, and that a technical postmortem would follow once findings are verified.
Until later incidents and recoveries are recorded, both 322 and $8.734 billion are snapshots as of Oct. 30, not a year-end result.
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