Blockchain safety agency Certik says monetary losses associated to safety incidents within the web3 business topped over $1.84 billion in 2023.
In its annual web3 safety report, Certik says there have been 751 safety incidents final 12 months costing a complete of $1,840,879,064, representing a decline of 51% from the $3.7 billion misplaced in 2022.
A bigger proportion of the losses are attributed to only 10 incidents that accounted for $1.11 billion.
November was the most expensive month with $363.36 million misplaced in 45 incidents, whereas the third quarter noticed probably the most losses with 183 hacks, scams, and exploits costing $686.558 million.
The report says compromised non-public keys account for less than 6.3% of the safety incidents however these brought on the most expensive losses to the tune of $880.89 million in simply 47 incidents.
“Accounting for almost 50% of complete losses, and amounting to $880 million, these compromises have been a painful reminder of the significance of safe non-public key administration…
Notably, six of the ten costliest safety incidents over the course of 2023 have been as a result of non-public key compromises.”
The BNB Chain (BNB) had the best variety of safety incidents with 387 hacks, scams and exploits costing $134 million. Ethereum (ETH) adopted with 224 incidents and $686 million in losses.
The report additionally says there have been 35 incidents affecting a number of chains costing $799 million in losses, highlighting the challenges of conducting cross-chain transactions.
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