{"id":16588,"date":"2024-09-01T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/august-hacks-exceed-313-million-reports-peckshield\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T15:11:00","slug":"august-hacks-exceed-313-million-reports-peckshield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/august-hacks-exceed-313-million-reports-peckshield\/","title":{"rendered":"August Hacks Exceed $313 Million, Reports PeckShield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers pilfered digital assets worth $313.86 million in over 10 attacks during August, according to a report by PeckShield.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PeckShieldAlert?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PeckShieldAlert<\/a> August 2024 witnessed 10+ hacks in the crypto space, resulting in ~$313.86 million in losses. The 2 largest hacks, both involving unauthorized transfers (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Phishing?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Phishing<\/a>), accounted for 93.5% of the total stolen funds, amounting to $293.4 million.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Top?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Top<\/a> 5 Hacks in\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lIAieHdUqt\">pic.twitter.com\/lIAieHdUqt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeckShieldAlert\/status\/1830100798338224548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The two largest phishing attacks accounted for 93.5% ($293.4 million) of the total funds stolen during the month.<\/p>\n<p>Ranking third in the list of breaches was the hack of the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ronin-sidechain-experiences-11-million-breach-funds-later-returned\">Ronin sidechain<\/a>, involving $12 million, which the hacker later returned in full.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, estimates by Immunefi suggested that since the beginning of 2024, the crypto industry <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/crypto-industry-faces-over-1-2-billion-loss-from-hacks-and-fraud-in-2024\">has lost over $1.2 billion<\/a> due to hacks and fraud. According to experts, 77% of hacked cryptocurrencies <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/report-77-of-hacked-cryptocurrencies-fail-to-recover-in-value\">have not recovered in value<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In August, users of the Telegram wallet <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/telegram-wallet-users-fall-victim-to-phishing-scam\">transferred funds to compromised addresses<\/a> listed in a phishing message from the official channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers pilfered digital assets worth $313.86 million in over 10 attacks during August, according to a report by PeckShield. #PeckShieldAlert August 2024 witnessed 10+ hacks in the crypto space, resulting in ~$313.86 million in losses. The 2 largest hacks, both involving unauthorized transfers (#Phishing), accounted for 93.5% of the total stolen funds, amounting to $293.4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,1252],"class_list":["post-16588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}