January 2026 Crypto Hacks & Scams: 25 Incidents Caused $350.7M in Verified Losses

• January 2026 recorded 25 publicly reported crypto security incidents.
• 19 incidents resulted in confirmed on-chain financial losses.
• 6 incidents involved no quantified financial loss.
• Total confirmed losses amounted to $350.7 million.
• Single largest incident caused $282.0 million in losses.
• The largest incident represented ~80.4% of total monthly losses.
• 18 remaining incidents combined accounted for < $70 million in losses.
• Smart-contract exploits caused ~ $53.0 million in losses across 6 incidents.
• Oracle and execution logic failures caused ~ $7.9 million in losses.
• Flash-loan attacks caused ~ $5.0 million in losses across 3 incidents.
• Access-control failures caused ~ $2.2 million in losses across 4 incidents.
• Other or unknown vectors caused ~ $0.1 million in losses.
• Approximately $2.7 million (<1%) of losses were recovered.
• Most unrecovered assets moved through cross-chain bridges or privacy tools.

Data Source: https://cryip.co/crypto-hacks-and-scams-january-2026/