December 2025: 26 Major Attacks on the Crypto Market, $76 Million Loss, New Low

2026-01-01 13:40:10

【Crypto World】December’s crypto landscape has been quite turbulent — approximately 26 major security incidents occurred throughout the month, resulting in a total loss of $76 million. Although this still sounds like a huge number, compared to $194 million in November, it has significantly improved, with a month-over-month decrease of over 60%.

The most devastating losses came from two incidents. First, a wallet was compromised due to address poisoning, resulting in a loss of $50 million, nearly accounting for the majority of the month’s total losses. The other involved a multi-signature wallet experiencing private key leakage, losing $27.3 million — this shows that even with multi-signature protection, poor private key management is still a vulnerability.

In addition, there were several other notable losses: the babur.sol project was affected by $22 million, TrustWallet suffered a $8.5 million hit, and UnleashProtocol and flow_blockchain each lost $3.9 million. These incidents highlight that wallet security remains a looming threat over the entire ecosystem.

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GateUser-5854de8b

· 7h ago

76 million dollars, feels like this year's security vulnerabilities are improving? Not so much anymore. Multi-signature can also fail, that's the most outrageous part. Address poisoning of 50 million, totally self-inflicted. Always hearing about wallets being hacked, when will it finally stop? Managing private keys is indeed the Achilles' heel for most people. This month is a bit less, but the numbers are still shocking. When will it end? It's Trust Wallet again, this wallet really needs to reflect on itself.

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GasOptimizer

· 7h ago

76 million still say it's getting better? Luckily, the counterpart is 194 million. Multi-signature wallets have also been compromised... It feels like there's really no such thing as true security these days. A 50 million address got hacked in one go—how careless can you be? Private keys really need to be guarded more tightly than life itself. Many big accounts have fallen here. Can't even trust wallets anymore. In our industry, no one can sleep peacefully.

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BagHolderTillRetire

· 7h ago

**Comment 1:** Another address poisoning, really unstoppable --- **Comment 2:** Multi-signature can also fail, how outrageous is that --- **Comment 3:** 50 million just gone like that, I might cry to death --- **Comment 4:** Much better than November, finally able to breathe a sigh of relief --- **Comment 5:** Private keys are the original sin, who can truly safeguard them --- **Comment 6:** 26 incidents sound quite frequent --- **Comment 7:** TrustWallet also got hacked? Then I need to check --- **Comment 8:** 76 million is still a new low, this month is good

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