Crypto hacks took $1.18 billion across 107 incidents in the third quarter of 2026, up 55% from the quarter before. The figure that tells you more sits underneath it: Hacken’s new report traces about 77% of those losses, some $906 million, to compromised suppliers, developer tools, security fixes that were disclosed but never deployed, and other parts of the stack that sat outside an audit.

Those are the headline numbers in Hacken’s Q3 2026 Security and Compliance Report, published on October 15. The quarter’s two biggest losses, at Bitget and on the Liquid Network, show how differently that plays out in practice.

Bitget: A Zero-Day at the Edge

At Bitget, unauthorized transfers began at about 18:31 UTC on September 24 across several…