Web3 ecosystem losses from exploits from the beginning of the year have approached $ 3 billion

During October, the losses of Web3 industry https://gagarin.news/news/will-the-new-digital-euro-protect-user-privacy/ as a result of 44 exploits amounted to about $ 760.2 million. The total damage for the year approached $ 3 billion, almost twice the last year’s indicator, was calculated in Peckshield.

In just a month, 53 protocols were affected in the incidents. A significant part of the damage is associated with breaking the BSC Token Hub bridge BNB Chain – $ 586 million. However, hackers managed to withdraw only about $ 100 million.

Approximately the latest amount, the projects managed to return. Therefore, real losses amounted to $ 657.2 million.

Mago Markets Defi platform crackers left $ 48 million by agreement with the protocol community from the withdrawn assets for about $ 116 million. The Transit Swap stolen about $ 21 million hacker has stolen $ 5.52 million as a reward at the Transit Swap cross.

The losses of the Defi project Team Finance after the output of $ 15.8 million with unknown assets amounted to only $ 2.4 million. The rest of the means of the hacker returned.

Already in mid -October, Chainalysis experts noted that the month became a record in 2022 at the cost of cryptocurrencies stolen by attackers. At that time, the damage from 11 attacks on Defi protocols reached $ 718 million.

Recall that for the third quarter, the total losses of the Web3 ecosystem from hacks and fraud amounted to $ 428.7 million, experts of the Immunefi Bounty platform calculated.

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