Weekly Data Report
Weekly wallet-security data: incident counts, loss totals, attack-type distribution and address-poisoning activity — compared week over week and against the 2026 baseline.
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2026-10-12Wallet Security Data Report — Week of October 5–11, 2026The week of October 5–11, 2026 in wallet-security numbers: about $4.58M in confirmed direct losses across four incidents — including a 200 ETH drain from a five-year-old MakerDAO keeper — set against $72M–$94.5M in suspected but unconfirmed user losses tied to Ledger devices sold by one reseller, where Ledger has confirmed a hardware implant in a single device and no loss figure at all.2026-10-05Weekly Wallet Security Data Report — September 28–October 4, 2026The numbers for September 28–October 4, 2026: roughly $9.6M in gross direct losses across four quantified incidents — about 2.3% of the prior week's total — one full recovery of $3.865M inside 24 hours, and the cheapest week this ledger has printed since the week of September 7–13.2026-09-28Weekly Wallet Security Data Report — September 21–27, 2026The numbers for September 21–27, 2026: roughly $412.3M in gross direct losses across eight quantified incidents — about $24.8M excluding the Bitget breach — one coordinated validator sweep that contained $2.2M, and a month that closed as the costliest of 2026.2026-09-21Weekly Wallet Security Data Report — September 14–20, 2026The numbers for September 14–20, 2026: roughly $20.9M in confirmed direct losses across nine quantified incidents, a week with no in-window recoveries, and a loss profile where every dollar traces to keys, authorization checks or oracle inputs rather than to code on a chain.2026-09-14Weekly Wallet Security Data Report — September 7–13, 2026The numbers for September 7–13, 2026: roughly $3.7M compromised across four confirmed incidents, ~$1.9M net after frozen assets, tracked losses down more than 99% from the Liquid-inflated prior week — plus a recovery ledger that includes 3,400 BTC returned to the Liquid federation.2026-09-07Wallet Security Data Report — August 31 – September 6, 2026The weekly numbers for August 31 – September 6, 2026: ~$321.8M in tracked direct losses, with one settlement-layer incident accounting for about 99.5% of the total, a $1.73M legacy-contract overflow second, and the non-Liquid remainder falling 77% week over week.2026-08-31Wallet Security Data Report — August 24–30, 2026The weekly numbers for August 24–30, 2026: ~$7.7M in tracked direct losses — a second consecutive weekly decline — led by a $5.72M Cosmos EVM bug, with the Salus drainer attribution and the $9.4M TRON poisoning tally adding the attribution layer.2026-08-25Wallet Security Data Report — August 17–23, 2026The weekly numbers for August 17–23, 2026: two major protocol incidents worth ~$10.3M, ~$2M in tracked user-side theft, a sharp week-over-week decline from the Aug 9–15 spike, and governance capture as the week's dominant loss class.