{"id":617942,"date":"2026-06-22T10:53:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/q2-2026-emerges-as-most-hacked-quarter-on-record-with-83-incidents\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:53:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:53:49","slug":"q2-2026-emerges-as-most-hacked-quarter-on-record-with-83-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/q2-2026-emerges-as-most-hacked-quarter-on-record-with-83-incidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Q2 2026 emerges as most-hacked quarter on record with 83 incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto hackers stole $755 million across 83 cybersecurity incidents, as cross\u2013chain bridges remained the most costly attack vector of the crypto industry.<\/p>\n<p>The second quarter of 2026 has already become the most-hacked quarter on record by incident count, with 83 exploits targeting cryptocurrency protocols, according to analysis by market insights platform Unfolded based on DefiLlama data.<\/p>\n<p>However, the $755.3 million stolen during the quarter so far is significantly lower than the $3.56 billion lost in the fourth quarter of 2020, which remains the costliest quarter on record for crypto hacks.<\/p>\n<p>KelpDAO\u2019s $293 million hack and Drift Protocol\u2019s $280 million exploit were the largest incidents of the quarter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/q2-2026-most-hacked-quarter-record-83-incidents?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_medium&amp;utm_campaign=rss_feed_medium\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto hackers stole $755 million across 83 cybersecurity incidents, as cross\u2013chain bridges remained the most costly attack vector of the crypto industry. The second quarter of 2026 has already become the most-hacked quarter on record by incident count, with 83 exploits targeting cryptocurrency protocols, according to analysis by market insights platform Unfolded based on DefiLlama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":617943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-617942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}