Crypto Holders Lost $357M to 18 Major Hacks in April

Key Notes

• The crypto ecosystem lost over $350 million to hacks in April.
• A suspicious Bitcoin transaction leads the chart.
• 18 major hacks were recorded in April.

Following a significant decline in March, the amount of crypto assets lost to hackers again rose by almost 11 times in April.

According to data from PeckShield, hackers stole roughly $357.11 million from crypto holders in April. In total, 18 major hacks were recorded.

#PeckShieldAlert In April 2025, 18 major crypto hacks were recorded, resulting in $357.11M in total losses. Notably, @zksync, @KiloEx_perp, and @term_labs recovered a combined $14.4M of stolen funds.
Top 5 Hacks in April 2025
–#BTC unauthorized transfer: $330.7M
–@KiloEx_perp… pic.twitter.com/y0ve1cRshS

— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) May 7, 2025

PeckShield says the amounts of crypto lost to hacks in January, February, and March were $87.25 million, $1.51 billion, and $33.46 million, respectively.

An unauthorized Bitcoin

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transaction is leading the list with $330.7 million lost to fraudulent actors. The $7.5 million lost in the KiloEx decentralized exchange hack and $5.4 million in the ZKsync exploit have been reportedly recovered.

Coinspeaker reported that Binance, the largest crypto exchange by trading volume, helped KiloEx recover $6.1 million of the lost funds.

Loopscale, a decentralized finance lending protocol, also lost $5.8 million to a breach on April 26. Two days later, the firm announced that 90% of the funds had been returned in exchange for a 10% bounty to the hacker.

Following successful negotiations, all funds taken from the Loopscale protocol (5,726,725 USDC + 1,211 SOL) on April 26th have now been returned.

Users will incur no loss of deposits from this incident. Additional details (including information on vault withdrawals) to follow. https://t.co/zAgzAcGMSU

— Loopscale (@LoopscaleLabs) April 29, 2025

MophoLabs, another decentralized lending protocol, secured the fifth spot on the list with a $2.6 million exploit last month.

In February, the crypto ecosystem witnessed its largest hack. Bybit, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, lost $1.4 billion worth of Ethereum

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to the North Korean hackers, known as the Lazarus Group.

So far, there haven’t been any updates regarding a potential fund recovery. According to a Coinspeaker report, the attackers have already swapped $1.2 billion from ETH to BTC.

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