Incident All ledgers
Humanity: $32.0m
Humanity lost $32.0m on 8 June 2026. Ranked 95th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 8 June 2026
- Lost
- $32.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- DeFi Protocol
- Category
- Key Compromise
- Method
- Private Key Compromised
- Chains
- Ethereum, BSC
Humanity Protocol lost about $32M from its admin wallets, and 447M H tokens were minted without authorization, after the private key of a Humanity Foundation member was compromised.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 95th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 12th in 2026.
- It accounts for 36.8% of the $86.9m in known losses in June 2026.
- 153 incidents in the ledger are classified as Key Compromise, for $8.96bn in total. This one is 0.4% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 19 Nov 2017 | Tether | $31.0m | Token | Private Key Compromised | — |
| 01 Nov 2022 | Deribit | $28.0m | 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, “Humanity, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/humanity-2026-06-08/. How this is built