Crypto losses spiked by 1,163% over April, with the lion’s share of lost crypto coming from a single heist of an elderly US individual’s wallet, says blockchain security firm CertiK.
CertiK data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://x.com/CertiKAlert/status/1917549629899448787″ rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>said in an April 30 X post that a total of $364 million was lost to exploits, hacks and scams in April, jumping from the data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-losses-exploits-scams-drops-29-million-march-certik” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>$28.8 million recorded by CertiK in March.
The firm added that white hat exploiters had returned around $18.2 million from exploits on the crypto protocols KiloEx, Loopscale and ZKsync, which brought down the month’s total.
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