Crypto Hack Losses Surge 460% in September Driven by Bitget and Liquid Network Incidents

Crypto hack and exploit losses reached $766.49 million in September, a 462% increase from August's $136.3 million, according to PeckShield. This marks the highest monthly loss of 2026. The surge was primarily driven by a $387 million attack on Bitget and a $320 million exploit on Liquid Network, with the latter seeing $285 million subsequently returned. These two incidents accounted for 92% of the total monthly losses. PeckShield recorded 55 major attacks in September, including incidents involving Duelbits, Payment Processor V2, DCENT Wallet, Astroport, Drop, NostraFinance, and the Nomic nBTC bridge. Investigations into the Bitget incident revealed a zero-day vulnerability in a third-party security product.