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Latest news on crypto hacks, covering cryptocurrency hacks, exchange hacks, DeFi exploits, cross-chain bridge attacks, wallet drainers, flash loan attacks, smart contract bugs, stolen crypto, data breaches at crypto firms, Lazarus and TraderTraitor, and how stolen funds are traced and recovered.

Crypto hacks target exchanges, DeFi protocols, bridges and individual wallets, where transfers are fast, public and almost impossible to reverse. Chainalysis has estimated that thieves took about $3.8 billion in 2022 and around $2.2 billion in 2024, while North Korea-linked groups were credited with roughly $2 billion in 2025 alone.

Attackers rely on a mix of methods: private key compromise, social engineering, malicious software, smart contract flaws, flash loan manipulation and address poisoning. Blockchain analysts such as Chainalysis, Elliptic and TRM Labs, along with on-chain investigators like ZachXBT, follow stolen funds through mixers such as Tornado Cash, while stablecoin issuers and exchanges sometimes freeze assets.

Behind every figure are people: savers who lose everything to a drainer, projects that shut down after an exploit, and security researchers who win bounties for finding bugs first. Debates over self-custody, hardware wallets, audits and whether exchanges should reimburse users run through every major incident.

The history is long. Mt. Gox lost nearly 850,000 bitcoin in 2014, the 2016 DAO exploit led Ethereum to split into Ethereum and Ethereum Classic, the Ronin bridge lost over $600 million in 2022, and the Bybit theft of about $1.5 billion in 2025 set a record that analysts linked to the Lazarus Group. Large exchange thefts, including at Binance, continue to test the industry.

Our NewsNow crypto hacks feed brings together the latest headlines on hacks, exploits, heists, breaches and stolen crypto from reliable sources, so you can follow attacks, investigations, arrests and recovery efforts as they develop.