Cybercriminals stole $2.7 billion (around €2.5 billion) in crypto during 2025, a new record for cryptocurrency theft hacking attacks, according to blockchain monitoring firms.
Once again, in 2025, there were dozens of cryptocurrency heists that hit several cryptocurrency exchanges and other web3 and decentralized finance (DeFi) projects.
The largest theft to date was the "breach" at Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, where hackers stole an estimated $1.4 billion in crypto.
Blockchain analysis firms, as well as the FBI, blamed North Korean government hackers — the most prolific group targeting cryptocurrencies in recent years — for this massive heist.
This was the largest known cryptocurrency heist of all time and one of the largest financial heists in human history.
Before Bybit, the largest cryptocurrency thefts totaled $624 million and $611 million for hackers in the 2022 breaches against Ronin Network and Poly Network, respectively.
Cryptocurrency monitoring firms Chainalysis and TRM Labs both estimated a total of $2.7 billion stolen in crypto by 2025, according to data shared with TechCrunch.
Chainalysis also tracked another $700,000 stolen from individual crypto wallets, the company said.
Other notable crypto hacks this year included the one against Cetus, a decentralized exchange, which netted hackers $223 million.
Cybercriminals targeting cryptocurrency exchanges and other DeFi projects are not slowing down.
In 2024, hackers stole $2.2 billion in cryptocurrencies, while the year before, in 2023, the total was $2 billion. /Telegrafi/
