Unknown victims have misplaced $25.6 million value of cryptocurrency in an assault, based on blockchain safety agency PeckShield.
PeckShieldAlert reported on August 13 that the stolen belongings included roughly $6.3 million in aWBTC, $5.1 million in DAI, $4.7 million in WBTC and $2.6 million in Ethereum (ETH).
Following the theft, the attacker swapped the stolen belongings for roughly 20 million DAI and three,000 ETH, valued at about $5.64 million on the time of PeckShield’s report. The funds are at present unfold throughout 4 addresses.
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PeckShield didn’t determine the victims.
Assaults proceed to persist
In line with Nominis, crypto attackers stole roughly $242 million throughout 28 main safety incidents in July. This makes it one of many heaviest months for crypto losses this 12 months.
The biggest contributor was a five-year-old firmware vulnerability affecting Coinkite’s Coldcard {hardware} wallets. It accounted for roughly $116 million, or practically half of the month’s whole losses. The remaining 27 assaults resulted in about $126 million in losses.
In line with Nominis, main crypto safety incidents resulted in roughly $1.65 billion in losses throughout the first seven months of 2026.
The month-to-month figures are roughly: January $385 million, February $49.3 million, March $178.1 million, April $606.7 million, Might $124.9 million, June $62.2 million, and July $242 million.
April was by far the worst month because of the Kelp DAO and Drift assaults. July was the second-heaviest month at roughly $242 million. The Coldcard firmware exploit accounting for roughly $116 million.
The largest crypto assault of 2026 to this point is the aforementioned Kelp DAO exploit, which resulted in roughly $293 million in losses in April. It narrowly surpassed the $285 million Drift Protocol assault earlier that month.
The Kelp DAO and Drift assaults collectively accounted for roughly $578 million, or about 95% of all crypto losses recorded by Nominis in April.