Incident All ledgers
Mixin Network: $200.0m
Mixin Network lost $200.0m on 23 September 2023. Ranked 21st of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 23 September 2023
- Lost
- $200.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- Other
- Category
- Frontend & Infrastructure
- Method
- Database Breach
- Chains
- Mixin
In September 2023, attackers breached a cloud service provider's database holding Mixin Network's hot wallet credentials and drained about $200M in ETH, BTC and USDT.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 21st of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 1st in 2023.
- It accounts for 62.3% of the $321.3m in known losses in September 2023.
- 93 incidents in the ledger are classified as Frontend & Infrastructure, for $7.49bn in total. This one is 2.7% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 Dec 2021 | Badger DAO | $120.0m | DeFi Protocol | CDN Compromise | — |
| 03 Jun 2023 | Atomic Wallet | $100.0m | Wallet | Supply Chain Attack | — |
| 09 Oct 2026 | Ledger (Supply Chain) | $93.0m | Wallet | Supply Chain Attack | — |
| 08 Dec 2017 | NiceHash | $64.0m | CEX | Key Leaked via Infrastructure | — |
| 09 Sept 2025 | SwissBorg | $41.5m | CEX | API Key Compromised | — |
All failures in 2023 · 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, “Mixin Network, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/mixin-network-2023-09-23/. How this is built