Incident All ledgers
Nobitex: $82.0m
Nobitex lost $82.0m on 18 June 2025. Ranked 50th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 18 June 2025
- Lost
- $82.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- CEX
- Category
- Social Engineering
- Method
- Malware
- Chains
- Tron, Ethereum, BSC, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Polygon, Bitcoin
On June 18, 2025, attackers compromised Nobitex hot wallet private keys and took roughly $82-90M across multiple blockchains. They then burned the funds by sending them to inaccessible addresses, framed as a political statement.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 50th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 6th in 2025.
- It accounts for 78.2% of the $104.9m in known losses in June 2025.
- 61 incidents in the ledger are classified as Social Engineering, for $3.12bn in total. This one is 2.6% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Sept 2022 | Wintermute | $160.0m | Other | Phishing | — |
| 10 Nov 2023 | Poloniex | $126.0m | CEX | Malware | — |
| 19 Apr 2021 | EasyFi | $59.0m | DeFi Protocol | Malware | — |
| 05 Nov 2021 | Ooki | $55.0m | DeFi Protocol | Phishing | — |
| 16 Oct 2024 | Radiant V2 | $50.0m | DeFi Protocol | Blind Signing | — |
All failures in 2025 · 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, “Nobitex, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/nobitex-2025-06-18/. How this is built