Since the start of 2026, hackers have stolen $165 million worth of cryptocurrency

Over the past three months, there have been more than 50 major hacks involving the theft of digital assets

Since the beginning of 2026, hackers have stolen approximately $165 million worth of cryptocurrency. A total of 51 major hacks have been reported, according to data from the analytics service PeckShield.

In March, there were 20 major hacking attacks totaling $52 million. Among the largest incidents were the $25.3 million hack of the Resolv crypto protocol and the theft of nearly $18.2 million from a Kraken user as a result of a targeted attack using social engineering techniques.

The Resolv hack was linked to a vulnerability in the key management system, which allowed the creation of unsecured tokens. Following this, the price of the project’s USR stablecoin plummeted by approximately 80%, triggering a chain reaction of losses across several DeFi protocols, including Morpho, Euler, and Fluid.

The total also includes $24 million stolen during an armed attack on a user named Sillytuna. This account has been active since June 2008; journalists link it to a long-time entrepreneur in the non-fungible token (NFT) and gaming sectors who used this pseudonym on several platforms.

In February, PeckShield analysts recorded 15 hacks totaling $26.5 million. The YieldBlox.finance project lost $10 million. A hack of the IoTeX blockchain bridge resulted in a loss of $8.8 million. The decentralized financial service CrossCurve lost $3 million.

In January, analysts were aware of 16 incidents totaling just over $86 million. The largest amount of cryptocurrency was lost during the StepFinance protocol hack ($28.9 million). The TrueBit project lost $26.4 million. The SwapNet service lost $13.3 million in cryptocurrency.

The StepFinance project announced its closure shortly after the hack. Its partner projects were also forced to cease operations: SolanaFloor, a media resource focused on the Solana ecosystem, and the tokenization platform Remora Markets.

Earlier, PeckShield reported that by the end of 2025, hackers and scammers had stolen $4 billion in cryptocurrency. Of this amount, $2.67 billion were losses from hacks, the most serious of which cost the Bybit exchange $1.4 billion. To date, it has managed to recover less than 10% of the stolen funds.

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