In February 2026, the encryption industry suffered a loss of $26.5 million due to hacker attacks

PeckShield monitoring shows that in February 2026, the cryptocurrency industry suffered losses of $26.5 million due to hacker attacks, the lowest record since March 2025. There were a total of 15 attack incidents in February, with losses decreasing by 98.2% compared to February 2025's $1.5 billion and 69.2% compared to January 2026's $86 million. The top five security incidents resulted in losses of approximately 25.9 million US dollars, accounting for over 98% of the total losses for the month. Among them, Stellar's ecological lending protocol YieldBlox suffered a loss of $10 million due to oracle manipulation, IoTeX's ioTube bridging vulnerability resulted in a loss of $8.8 million, CrossCurve, FOOMCASH, and Moonwell suffered losses of $3 million, $2.3 million, and $1.8 million, respectively. Currently, YieldBlox has frozen $7.2 million, and the IoTeX Foundation has announced 100% compensation for damaged users of ioTube, and has frozen 86% of illegal tokens.