Data: $1.32 billion in losses, 224 crypto hacking incidents in the first half of 2026 have been publicly disclosed

Comparing news, Onchain Lens posted an article on the X platform saying that in the first half of 2026, 224 publicly disclosed cryptographic hacking incidents caused a loss of about 1.32 billion US dollars. The biggest losses came from access control failures, phishing attacks, and oracle issues.

In terms of attack type breakdown, access control failures involved privilege compromise and privileged access, driving many of the largest attacks, including Kelp DAO losing $292 million, Drift Protocol losing $280 million, Humanity Protocol losing $31 million, Step Finance losing $30 million, Truebit losing $26.5 million, Resolv Labs losing $25 million, AFX The loss was $24.15 million, and BonkDAO lost $21 million. In terms of phishing and social engineering attacks, social engineering attacks cost $282 million in losses. In terms of the oracle problem, Ostium lost $24 million, Blend Protocol lost $10.86 million, and Bonzo lost $9 million. Most of the losses were caused by a few incidents, with compromised privileges and privileged access driving many of the biggest attacks.