This amount includes $471.43 million obtained by hackers in 108 attacks on various projects and protocols, $108 million stolen in various phishing scams, and $75.87 million stolen by developers of fraudulent projects (over 110 cases).</nbsp;<br
However, hackers received significantly less money than last year, when the figure reached $1.91 billion and $1.69 billion in the first and second half of the year, respectively.
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“Approximately $215 million has been recovered, representing $45.5% of the cryptocurrency stolen by hackers. By comparison, in 2022, only 8% of. Also, $113 million in assets were moved to mixing services – $45.38 million to Tornado Cash and $68.14 million to other mixers,” Beosin analysts wrote.
The report also notes that only one project has been hacked for more than $100 million – it’s Euler Finance, which lost $195 million in March. In this case, however, the hackers recovered all the stolen funds.
Most of the stolen assets were placed on the Etherium network (75.6%). However, 56% of the funds were stolen because of vulnerabilities in smart contracts, and in 21.4% of cases, the specialists were never able to find the cause.
Earlier it was reported that the amount of cryptocurrencies stolen in the first quarter of 2023 fell by 65% compared to the same period in 2022.<br