3.1 billion dollars of crypto lost in the painful half-time of 2025: Hacken

In the middle of 2025, the cryptographic industry has already undergone more than $ 3.1 billion in loss of pirates, scams and farms.

According to Hacken’s latest report, this year has become one of the most damaging of recent memory.

Access control exploits dominate the losses

The latest figure exceeds $ 2.85 billion from last year, as security reduction in the sector continues. In a press release, the co-founder of Hacken and Cbdo Yevheniia Broshevan said,,

“2025 was an alarm clock. In just two quarters, $ 3.1 billion was lost for access control failures, vulnerabilities and social engineering. While blockchain reaches the company scale and regulations are growing, cybersecurity becomes a main commercial function. The projects that invest in resilience and security strengthen confidence, compliance and protection of digital innovation. ”

The most important incident was the first quarter hack bybit, where the attackers drained nearly $ 1.5 billion. The incident alone represented 83% of total Q1 losses and highlighted the catastrophic risks linked to compromised access control systems.

In total, access control exploits dominated the landscape and were responsible for around 59% of all lost funds, around $ 1.83 billion, on DEFI and CEFI platforms.

DEFI has undergone the worst quarter since 2023

DEFI has undergone its worst quarter since the beginning of 2023, with $ 300 million drained in the second quarter. The faults of the intelligent contract played a crucial role, because this cohort represented 8% of the total crypto losses and led to 263 million stolen dollars, including $ 223 million in the main feat of Cetus this year.

Phishing and social engineering scams have also increased to new files. In fact, only one incident in April saw a victim to lose $ 330 million in Bitcoin after being deceived, while the switches by phone imitating Coinbase support drained more than $ 100 million following a contact of contact data.

While Q1 was spoiled by large -scale access control failures, Q2 was relatively quieter. The period observed that less than $ 200 million lost in similar exploits, but several high -level incidents have shown how a single role or a disclosed key can allow attackers to drain the systems in a few minutes.