Incidents

Rugs, wallet drains and scams that hit ordinary traders: what happened, the receipt for each fact, and what to do.

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Tuesday

20 October 2026

Qubic Rolled Dice for 1,400 Wallet Seeds. The Dice Took $1.4 Million. 14:44 UTC

Monday

19 October 2026

Qubic Halted the Chain With 87% of the Stolen $1.3M Still On It 08:45 UTC

Sunday

18 October 2026

Qubic Stops at Tick 85,371,949 With the Wallets Already Empty 20:42 UTC

Saturday

17 October 2026

The Share Counter Stopped Adding Up and $1.49 Million Left UNCX 20:45 UTC

Sunday

11 October 2026

Ledger Found One Hidden Chip; Bitquery Counts $92.9M Gone From 311 Wallets 20:43 UTC

The Approval Was Genuine. The $29M Was Gone in Six Seconds 08:44 UTC

$1.07M of the Ledger Haul Goes Through Tornado Cash; $70.6M Stays Put 02:43 UTC

Saturday

10 October 2026

Ledger to Southeast Asia Buyers: Do Not Set Up the Device, Move the Assets 14:43 UTC

Tether Freezes $10M of a $92.9M Drain That Hit 311 Wallets 02:43 UTC

Friday

9 October 2026

Ledger's Recall Reaches the Warehouse, Not the Seed Phrase 20:43 UTC

Ledger Says Don't Turn On the Box It Sold, $86M Gone on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tron 14:42 UTC

Ten USDT In, $3.87M Out, Signatures Valid the Whole Way 08:46 UTC

Thursday

8 October 2026

79thVault Lost $12.5 Million on BNB Chain. The Contract Had One Role for That. 14:43 UTC

Solana Silver Token Shuts Down, Refunding Holders at $63 a Token 08:43 UTC

Wednesday

7 October 2026

Five Chains, $6.07 Million, and a Cause Nobody Will Disclose 14:42 UTC

Tuesday

6 October 2026

A Three-of-Seven Safe Signed Off on the Contract That Emptied a Base Vault 14:44 UTC

Base Vault Loses $6M to a Whitelist That Changed Its Mind Twice in a Minute 08:42 UTC

The Whitelist Was Right at 08:52 and Wrong Again at 08:53 02:43 UTC

Monday

5 October 2026

Base Vault's Safe Deletes the Attacker, Undoes It in a Minute, Loses $6 Million 20:42 UTC

The Whole Revenue Drain Fits in One Transaction, So There Is Nothing to Revoke 14:44 UTC

Base Vault Loses $6 Million After Its Own Safe Re-Enabled the Attacker 08:42 UTC

Base Vault Whitelists a Newly Deployed Contract and Loses $6 Million 02:43 UTC

Sunday

4 October 2026

Base Vault Welcomes Fresh Contract to Wallet; Contract Leaves With Wallet 20:42 UTC

$305,000 Leaves Two Ethereum Safes Through an Add-On Aave Never Shipped 08:43 UTC

Saturday

3 October 2026

20,933 TradeWiz Wallets Paid $459,000 for a Leaked Key 20:42 UTC

Friday

2 October 2026

Twenty Thousand Solana Wallets, One Key Export, $439,000 Gone 20:42 UTC

TradeWiz Lost $459,000 Across 20,933 Solana Wallets; the Taker Had an Account 14:43 UTC

The $3.8M Left a BSC Hot Wallet; NEAR Intents Shut Eleven Chains to Find the Leak 08:43 UTC

Protocol's Hot Wallet Spontaneously Develops Wanderlust, Transfers $3.8M to KuCoin 02:43 UTC

Thursday

1 October 2026

SKYDAO Discovers Expensive Difference Between 'Smart' Chain & Actual Smart 14:42 UTC

Wednesday

30 September 2026

Blockchain VP: Yes We Plugged the Hole, But the Faucet's Still Running 14:43 UTC

Robinhood Chain's Launch Factory Billed $18.43 Million 05:43 UTC

Tuesday

29 September 2026

Bitget Restarts Bitcoin Withdrawals, $388 Million Not Among Them 20:42 UTC

The Fund Covers It, and ETH Returns September 29 11:44 UTC

Monday

28 September 2026

53 Robinhood Chain launches were exit liquidity; one group took $18.43M 17:45 UTC

Sunday

27 September 2026

Fifty-Three Robinhood Chain Launches, One Group, $18.43 Million Taken 23:42 UTC

$83 Million in XRP Leaves Bitget and the Ledger Has No Freeze Button 05:44 UTC

Saturday

26 September 2026

Bitget Finds $387.5M Gone and Starts the Review It Already Passed 11:43 UTC

Friday

25 September 2026

Bitget's Hot Wallet Runs a $351.6M Tab 07:28 UTC

Thursday

10 September 2026

Grassroots token turns out to have a badge and a lanyard 12:25 UTC

Stock token is debt now, and the issuer can find out online 10:27 UTC