Incident All ledgers
CoinDCX: $44.2m
CoinDCX lost $44.2m on 19 July 2025. Ranked 79th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 19 July 2025
- Lost
- $44.2m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- CEX
- Category
- Key Compromise
- Method
- Hot Wallet Key Compromised
On July 19, 2025, a server breach at CoinDCX exposed the private key of an operational hot wallet used for liquidity provisioning, leading to a loss of about $44.2M. The stolen funds were bridged from Solana to Ethereum, while customer cold storage was not affected.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 79th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 10th in 2025.
- It accounts for 30.6% of the $144.2m in known losses in July 2025.
- 153 incidents in the ledger are classified as Key Compromise, for $8.96bn in total. This one is 0.5% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Other incidents named CoinDCX
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Oct 2026 | CoinDCX | $16.0m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Aug 2025 | BtcTurk | $48.0m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 20 Sept 2024 | BingX | $43.3m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 04 Sept 2023 | Stake.com | $41.3m | Other | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 31 Jan 2026 | Step Finance | $40.0m | DeFi Protocol | Private Key Compromised | — |
| 07 May 2019 | Binance | $40.0m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
All failures in 2025 · 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, “CoinDCX, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/coindcx-2025-07-19/. How this is built