Incidents by month

Crypto hacks and exploits in January 2025

Name: OAK — OnChain Attack Knowledge Dataset
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Keywords: on-chain attacks, smart contract exploits, crypto laundering, threat actors, taxonomy

6 incidents. Each links to a full write-up: timeline, OAK Techniques, attacker addresses and fund flow, with sources.

Incidents (6)

Phemex hot-wallet theft (Jan 2025): $73M — 2025-01-23 · loss $73M · OAK-T7.001 Mixer-Routed Hop
$TRUMP and $MELANIA presidential / first-spouse memecoin launches — Solana — 2025-01 — loss $4.3B · OAK-T1.004 Blacklist / Pausable Transfer Weaponization
MEV-Boost relay censorship and OFAC-compliance validator concentration — Ethereum — 2025 — OAK-T14.002 MEV-Boost Relay Attack
Mango Markets SEC settlement and protocol shutdown — Solana — 2024-09 to 2025-01 — loss $1.2M · OAK-T6.007 Trust-substrate Shift / Vendor-side Promise Revocation
David Balland kidnapping hack (Jan 2025) — OAK-T5.009 Physical-Coercion Extraction (Wrench Attack)
Hayden Davis / Kelsier Ventures memecoin operator-cluster cohort — Solana — 2025-Q1 — OAK-T1.003 Renounced-But-Not-Really (Proxy-Upgrade Backdoor)