Incident All ledgers
WazirX: India: $234.9m
WazirX: India lost $234.9m on 18 July 2024. Ranked 19th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 18 July 2024
- Lost
- $234.9m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- CEX
- Category
- Social Engineering
- Method
- Signer Phishing
- Chains
- Ethereum
On July 18, 2024, Indian exchange WazirX lost about $234.9M across more than 190 tokens after attackers gained control of a multisig wallet custodied by Liminal. They used a fake WazirX account and hot wallet access, then exploited the multisig's smart contract without needing the original keys.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 19th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 3rd in 2024.
- It accounts for 82.6% of the $284.3m in known losses in July 2024.
- 61 incidents in the ledger are classified as Social Engineering, for $3.12bn in total. This one is 7.5% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Nov 2022 | FTX | $450.0m | CEX | Phishing | — |
| 31 May 2024 | DMM Bitcoin | $305.0m | CEX | Phishing | $305.0m |
| 20 Sept 2022 | Wintermute | $160.0m | Other | Phishing | — |
| 10 Nov 2023 | Poloniex | $126.0m | CEX | Malware | — |
| 18 Jun 2025 | Nobitex | $82.0m | CEX | Malware | — |
All failures in 2024 · 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, “WazirX: India, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/wazirx-india-2024-07-18/. How this is built