{"id":81077,"date":"2023-07-01T14:53:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T11:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=81077"},"modified":"2025-09-11T20:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:47:26","slug":"report-crypto-industry-losses-from-hacks-and-scams-total-655-million-in-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/report-crypto-industry-losses-from-hacks-and-scams-total-655-million-in-six-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: crypto industry losses from hacks and scams total $655 million in six months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first half of 2023, the crypto industry lost about $655.6 million due to hacks, frauds, and <span data-descr=\"the practice of pumping up the price of a token created in a liquidity pool, followed by a sharp withdrawal of funds\" class=\"old_tooltip\">rug pull<\/span>. Beosin experts provided these figures.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">H1 2023 Web3 Security Statistics <\/p>\n<p>Total losses from hacks, phishing scams, and rug pulls in Web3 reached $655.61 million in the first half of 2023. <\/p>\n<p>Among them,<br \/>108 attacks -> $471.43M<br \/>Phishing scams -> $108M<br \/>110 rug pulls -> $75.87M <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8Q9kmDETfQ\">pic.twitter.com\/8Q9kmDETfQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Beosin Alert (@BeosinAlert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeosinAlert\/status\/1674618821766971392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Losses were distributed as follows:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>$471.43 million \u2014 108 hacking attacks;<\/li>\n<li>$108 million \u2014 phishing scams;<\/li>\n<li>$75.87 million \u2014 110 rug pulls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Analysts say that about $215 million of the assets stolen by hackers were recovered. The figure was well above last year\u2019s \u2014 45.5% vs. 8%.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Beosin <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/report-crypto-industry-losses-from-hacks-in-2022-rise-to-3-6-billion\">estimated the damage<\/a> to the crypto industry from 167 major attacks at $3.6 billion. More than half of the total losses came from 12 incidents with <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-cross-chain-bridges\">cross-chain bridges<\/a> \u2014 $1.89 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first half of 2023, the crypto industry lost about $656 million due to hacks, frauds, and rug pulls. Beosin experts provided these figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,1111,1252],"class_list":["post-81077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-cybersecurity","tag-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81077","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=81077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81079,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81077\/revisions\/81079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}