#DEFİ #bybit #KelpDAO From 2025 onward, crypto hacks have not only become more frequent, but also significantly more expensive for exchanges, DeFi projects, and investors.
This is reported by Visual Capitalist.
The largest crypto hacks
The Bybit breach in February 2025 became the biggest crypto theft in the entire history of the market. As a result of the hack, the attackers stole about $1.5 billion—this is a record crypto hack in the history of the industry.
The hackers were able to gain access to a third-party developer’s workstation and discreetly embed malicious code into the transaction processing workflow. As a result, the system displayed transfers as legitimate, although in reality the funds were being redirected to the attackers’ wallets.
The second and third largest crypto hacks occurred in April 2026. These involve cases with KelpDAO and Drift Trade.
In the case of KelpDAO, the hackers attacked a third-party system that checked transactions between different blockchains. The attackers managed to:
forge a collateral deposit;
create the appearance of available collateral;
gain access to approximately $292 million in crypto assets.
In effect, the system “believed” that on one blockchain the real assets were locked, and allowed the withdrawal of the actual funds to another