Incident All ledgers
CoinDCX: $16.0m
CoinDCX lost $16.0m on 21 October 2026. Ranked 148th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 21 October 2026
- Lost
- $16.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- CEX
- Category
- Key Compromise
- Method
- Hot Wallet Key Compromised
- Chains
- TRON
CoinDCX saw about $16 million in suspicious outflows from TRON addresses it says were compromised in its July 2025 breach and kept receiving deposits after deprecation; it absorbed the losses and credited users, though investigators disputed the addresses were truly retired.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 148th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 19th in 2026.
- It accounts for 0.2% of the $6.49bn in known losses in October 2026.
- 153 incidents in the ledger are classified as Key Compromise, for $8.96bn in total. This one is 0.2% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Other incidents named CoinDCX
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Jul 2025 | CoinDCX | $44.2m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Jan 2019 | Cryptopia | $16.0m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 29 Apr 2024 | Rain | $14.8m | CEX | Private Key Compromised | — |
| 08 Apr 2023 | GDAC | $13.9m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 16 Apr 2026 | Grinex | $13.7m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 31 Oct 2024 | M2 Exchange | $13.7m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
All failures in 2026 · 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-2026-10-21/. How this is built