Incident All ledgers
Stake.com: $41.3m
Stake.com lost $41.3m on 4 September 2023. Ranked 83rd of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 4 September 2023
- Lost
- $41.3m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- Other
- Category
- Key Compromise
- Method
- Hot Wallet Key Compromised
- Chains
- Ethereum, BSC, Polygon
On September 4, 2023, attackers compromised Stake.com's hot wallets and stole about $41.3M in USDT, ETH and other assets on Ethereum, BSC and Polygon.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 83rd of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 12th in 2023.
- It accounts for 12.9% of the $321.3m in known losses in September 2023.
- 153 incidents in the ledger are classified as Key Compromise, for $8.96bn in total. This one is 0.5% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Aug 2025 | BtcTurk | $48.0m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 19 Jul 2025 | CoinDCX | $44.2m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 20 Sept 2024 | BingX | $43.3m | CEX | 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 | — |
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, “Stake.com, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/stake-com-2023-09-04/. How this is built