Incident All ledgers
Atomic Wallet: $100.0m
Atomic Wallet lost $100.0m on 3 June 2023. Ranked 42nd of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 3 June 2023
- Lost
- $100.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- Wallet
- Category
- Frontend & Infrastructure
- Method
- Supply Chain Attack
- Chains
- Ethereum, Tron, BSC, Bitcoin, Polkadot, Avalanche
On June 3, 2023, attackers compromised the Atomic Wallet application via a supply chain attack, injecting malicious code that stole private keys. Users lost over $100 million across roughly 5,500 wallets on multiple chains.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 42nd of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 5th in 2023.
- It accounts for 82.0% of the $122.0m in known losses in June 2023.
- 93 incidents in the ledger are classified as Frontend & Infrastructure, for $7.49bn in total. This one is 1.3% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Other incidents named Atomic
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 Aug 2026 | Atomic Green | $29,984 | DeFi Protocol | Signature Replay | — |
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Sept 2023 | Mixin Network | $200.0m | Other | Database Breach | — |
| 02 Dec 2021 | Badger DAO | $120.0m | DeFi Protocol | CDN Compromise | — |
| 09 Oct 2026 | Ledger (Supply Chain) | $93.0m | Wallet | Supply Chain Attack | — |
| 08 Dec 2017 | NiceHash | $64.0m | CEX | Key Leaked via Infrastructure | — |
| 09 Sept 2025 | SwissBorg | $41.5m | CEX | API Key Compromised | — |
All failures in 2023 · The failures ledger
Amounts are DefiLlama’s estimates and can change as incidents are revalued. Its returned figure can include money a company repaid itself, not only funds recovered from attackers. Source: DefiLlama.
Cite this Bitminer.io, “Atomic Wallet, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/atomic-wallet-2023-06-03/. How this is built