The 2024 Crypto Crime Report
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The 2024 Crypto Crime Report
More than $8.3 billion was stolen by crypto hackers and fraudsters in 2024, with at least 519 crypto-related crimes recorded throughout the year.
May 2024 saw the largest monthly losses, totaling nearly $580 million, primarily due to the DMM Bitcoin hack, the biggest crypto heist of the year.
One common feature shared across 2022, 2023, and now 2024 is that, contrary to popular belief, scam-related activities — not hacks — have been the most devastating for the crypto space. In 2024 alone, $5.84 billion was lost to scams, accounting for over two-thirds (70.3%) of the total amount drained from both retail investors and Web3 actors alike.
This figure probably barely scratches the surface of the true scale of crypto scams in 2024. Scams like crypto Ponzi schemes can take time to unravel and are often only discovered a year or more later, as seen with the $1 billion Novatech …
More than $8.3 billion was stolen by crypto hackers and fraudsters in 2024, with at least 519 crypto-related crimes recorded throughout the year.
May 2024 saw the largest monthly losses, totaling nearly $580 million, primarily due to the DMM Bitcoin hack, the biggest crypto heist of the year.
One common feature shared across 2022, 2023, and now 2024 is that, contrary to popular belief, scam-related activities — not hacks — have been the most devastating for the crypto space. In 2024 alone, $5.84 billion was lost to scams, accounting for over two-thirds (70.3%) of the total amount drained from both retail investors and Web3 actors alike.
This figure probably barely scratches the surface of the true scale of crypto scams in 2024. Scams like crypto Ponzi schemes can take time to unravel and are often only discovered a year or more later, as seen with the $1 billion Novatech …
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