Incident All ledgers
KITE Foundation: $13.3m
KITE Foundation lost $13.3m on 5 August 2026. Ranked 168th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 5 August 2026
- Lost
- $13.3m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- Wallet
- Category
- Key Compromise
- Method
- Private Key Compromised
- Chains
- Ethereum
Attackers who compromised private keys drained sixteen KITE Foundation wallets at once, taking about $13.34 million; the token contract itself was not exploited. The foundation paused transfers and bridges, then migrated legitimate balances to a new token.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 168th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 23rd in 2026.
- It accounts for 5.2% of the $255.5m in known losses in August 2026.
- 153 incidents in the ledger are classified as Key Compromise, for $8.96bn in total. This one is 0.1% 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 | — |
| 16 Apr 2026 | Grinex | $13.7m | 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 | — |
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, “KITE Foundation, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/kite-foundation-2026-08-05/. How this is built