Incident All ledgers
Grinex: $13.7m
Grinex lost $13.7m on 16 April 2026. Ranked 163rd of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 16 April 2026
- Lost
- $13.7m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- CEX
- Category
- Key Compromise
- Method
- Hot Wallet Key Compromised
- Chains
- Tron, Ethereum
In April 2026, attackers compromised Grinex's custodial wallets on Tron and Ethereum and drained about $13.74M. They quickly converted USDT into TRX and ETH to avoid stablecoin freezes, and the exchange then suspended operations.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 163rd of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 21st in 2026.
- It accounts for 2.1% of the $648.1m in known losses in April 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.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Apr 2024 | Rain | $14.8m | CEX | Private Key Compromised | — |
| 08 Apr 2023 | GDAC | $13.9m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 31 Oct 2024 | M2 Exchange | $13.7m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 22 Nov 2023 | HTX | $13.6m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 05 Aug 2026 | KITE Foundation | $13.3m | Wallet | Private 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, “Grinex, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/grinex-2026-04-16/. How this is built