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AscenDEX

HIGHEthereum, BSC, Polygon·Hot Wallet Key Compromised·#53 all-time
$77.0M stolenSaturday, December 11, 2021 · 1779 days ago

Corpus updated 2026-10-25

What happened

  • AscenDEX, a centralised exchange, lost $77.0M on December 11, 2021.

  • The 11th largest of the 127 incidents recorded in 2021: 2.7% of the $2.87B lost to hacks that year.

  • Hot Wallet Key Compromised is behind 60 recorded incidents totalling $3.08B; this is the 10th largest of them.

Cite this record

Monitoring Room, "AscenDEX hack — $77.0M stolen", incident record, data: DefiLlama hacks dataset, as of 2026-10-25 08:00 UTC. https://monitoringroom.com/situation/crypto-hack/ascendex

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