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Follow crypto hack news, exploits, bridge attacks, protocol breaches, and security lessons from major incidents across Web3.

Hooded figure controls governance officials above X100 and Arkadiko treasury vaults, with tokens and funds spilling from damaged structures.

X100 governance flaws trigger $6M loss due to a flash loan

Liam 'Akiba' Wright Oct 28 4 min read

Hooded figure works at an Ethereum-marked laptop as Ethereum tokens travel along an industrial conveyor toward a green vortex.

Drift hacker washes $63M through Tornado Cash, leaving recovery claims in limbo

Liam 'Akiba' Wright Oct 20 2 min read

A damaged PancakeSwap pool releases USDT through a pipe while two hooded figures stand behind it and a broken lock exposes liquidity risks.

Locked liquidity did not stop this $14 million crypto pool drain

Liam 'Akiba' Wright Oct 9 1 min read

A damaged LayerZero raft loses users and asset crates as they move toward a Chainlink CCIP vessel after the $292M exploit.

Nearly $15B is moving off LayerZero, now a $292M lawsuit puts its security model on trial

Gino Matos Sep 26 4 min read

Editorial collage of an oracle-priced collateral crate jammed at a liquidation exit, showing that quoted value does not guarantee sufficient market liquidity.

Pragma flags 6 price feeds as critical risk following $3.5M Starknet lending exploit

Liam 'Akiba' Wright Sep 22 2 min read

Recovered Balancer ETH flows through branching channels toward V1 pools while liquidity providers wait for claim data and proposal approval.

Why Balancer’s $1.4M hack recovery won’t pay LPs anytime soon

Liam 'Akiba' Wright Sep 21 2 min read

A person faces a broken OADA to ADA redemption machine with OADA slips jammed inside and evidence notes showing missing ADA liquidity.

Cardano’s Splash fix patches the exploit, but leaves 2.4M ADA missing and holders trapped

Liam 'Akiba' Wright Sep 17 2 min read

Symbiosis bridge recovery scene showing a damaged native bridge, 15 BTC recovered, alternat

Hackers mint trillions in fake Bitcoin, but 15 BTC bridge recovery leaves liquidity providers unpaid

Liam 'Akiba' Wright Sep 13 2 min read

Torn editorial portrait contrasts audited DeFi scope with exposed code and crypto assets in a red out-of-scope risk zone.

Audited DeFi protocols lost $885M to attacks that occurred completely outside their audit scopes

Liam 'Akiba' Wright Sep 13 5 min read

Cronos blockchain breaks at a restore point as Ontology and ICON pause evidence highlights rollback, custody and recovery limits.

Stopping a blockchain doesn’t always recover stolen funds – What actually happened when 3 networks pulled the plug

Liam 'Akiba' Wright Sep 1 5 min read