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4 incidents, 2 live. 71 days since the last new one.

4 drains in the last 12 months

4 drains in the last 12 months

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  • Critical✕Still active

    Whale drained of $25.6M in aWBTC, DAI, WBTC and ETH; same wallet lost $24M to phishing in 2023

    On 12 August 2026 an unidentified whale lost about $25.6M, including about $6.3M in aWBTC, $5.1M in DAI, $4.7M in WBTC and $2.6M in ETH, according to PeckShield. Analyst Specter called it a phishing attack and PeckShield called it a hack; the exact method has not been published. The attacker swapped the funds into DAI and ETH across four addresses. The same wallet lost about $24.2M through malicious token approvals in September 2023.

    Unidentified Ethereum whale wallet·Ethereum·$26M stolen·Since Aug 12, 2026·

  • Critical◐Partly contained

    Solana owner-permission phishing: OKX Wallet and Phantom add warnings after $3M loss

    A Solana wallet user signed a transaction from a disguised tool site that showed no balance change but moved the account's Owner permission to an attacker address starting GKJBEL. SlowMist reported over $3M lost, with about $2M in DeFi positions later recovered with protocol help. On 7 Jan 2026 OKX Wallet warned the technique was spreading across Solana, said it had added pre-signing warnings, and said Phantom had added similar alerts. Before signing, check for any instruction that changes an account owner or authority; normal wallets never ask you to change your own account's owner.

    Solana wallet user (single victim)·Solana·$3.0M stolen·Since Dec 5, 2025·

Past

January 2026 1

  • Critical✕Still active

    Investor sends 4,556 ETH ($12.25M) to a poisoned lookalike address planted months earlier

    On 30 January 2026 a victim sent 4,556 ETH, about $12.25M, to a lookalike of a regular counterparty's address. The attacker had seeded it into the victim's history with fake token transfers from February 2025 and ETH dust from October 2025; it matched the real address's first and last four characters. About 33 minutes later the ETH was swept to a new wallet, and the next day all of it went into Tornado Cash. Scam Sniffer flagged the loss.

    Ethereum whale wallet·Ethereum·$12M stolen·Since Jan 30, 2026·

November 2025 1

  • Critical✕Still active

    Whale's 1-of-1 Safe multisig drained of $27M+ after key compromise, ETH laundered via Tornado Cash

    A private whale's Gnosis Safe on Ethereum, set up so a single signature could approve transactions, was taken over and drained of about $27.3M according to PeckShield; Hacken's forensics say losses may exceed $40M. Ownership passed to the attacker six minutes after the Safe was created on 4 November 2025, and the thief laundered ETH through Tornado Cash in batches while slowly unwinding a leveraged Aave position. A multisig with one signer is only as safe as that one key.

    Private whale's Gnosis Safe multisig (Ethereum)·Ethereum·$27M stolen·Since Nov 4, 2025·

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