Incident All ledgers
EasyFi: $59.0m
EasyFi lost $59.0m on 19 April 2021. Ranked 65th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 19 April 2021
- Lost
- $59.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- DeFi Protocol
- Category
- Social Engineering
- Method
- Malware
- Chains
- Polygon
In April 2021, an attacker used malware-tampered MetaMask on the EasyFi CEO's admin machine to steal admin keys, then moved EASY tokens and drained stablecoins from liquidity pools; losses are recorded at $59M. A security researcher catalogued it in Lazarus/BlueNoroff research.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 65th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 14th in 2021.
- It accounts for 48.6% of the $121.4m in known losses in April 2021.
- 61 incidents in the ledger are classified as Social Engineering, for $3.12bn in total. This one is 1.9% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Jun 2025 | Nobitex | $82.0m | CEX | Malware | — |
| 05 Nov 2021 | Ooki | $55.0m | DeFi Protocol | Phishing | — |
| 16 Oct 2024 | Radiant V2 | $50.0m | DeFi Protocol | Blind Signing | — |
| 22 Jul 2023 | CoinsPaid | $37.3m | Other | Impersonation Scam | — |
| 26 Nov 2025 | Upbit | $36.0m | CEX | Malware | — |
All failures in 2021 · 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, “EasyFi, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/easyfi-2021-04-19/. How this is built