Crypto creator Bold loses around $90K after malware compromised Chrome extensions, stealing seed phrases and passwords and draining funds to Ethereum and Zcash.
August 2026 emerged as a damaging month for DeFi, with repeated exploits affecting Tectonic, More Markets, Maya Protocol, Harmony & multiple Cosmos EVM networks.
Blockaid revises the More Markets incident from $9.3M to $410K as Flow traces the exploit to unbacked tokens created through Ankr’s ankrFLOW contract.
Cronos halts its blockchain after a Tectonic exploit reportedly manipulates TONIC’s price 100x & affects around $75M in assets.
Maya Protocol suffered a $1.7M cross-chain exploit, draining 48.87M CACAO, 98.82 LINK and ~20 BTC, while CACAO crashed 88.7%.
Trezor’s ShipMonk data breach exposed customer names, addresses, phone numbers and emails, affecting 13,689 customers across seven countries.
Harmony ONE crashes over 30% after an unauthorized $4 billion token mint, with $2.8 billion moved to exchanges as Harmony investigates.
ZachXBT traces an alleged $5M crypto theft network using fake support calls, social engineering, wallet drains & onchain evidence.
The COLDCARD exploit exposed a critical seed generation flaw that led to the theft of nearly 594 BTC. Here's why the incident is a wake-up call for hardware wallet security and self-custody.
Carrot announces shutdown following Drift exploit impact, giving users until May 14 to withdraw funds before full deleveraging begins.
Golem Foundation has executed a transaction contributing to the rsETH recovery effort led by Aave, adding fresh momentum to the broader DeFi United.
April 2026 recorded over $635M in DeFi exploits across 28 incidents, exposing critical vulnerabilities in cross-chain systems, user security & protocol design.
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