Bee Shelby

The Biggest Crypto Heists

Society EN ↓ 3 episodes

The wildest true-crime stories from the blockchain era. Hundreds of millions vanish in minutes, hackers become legends overnight, founders disappear, and entire ecosystems get shaken. We go deep into the biggest crypto thefts ever recorded: the hacks, the exploits, the inside jobs, the chases across borders, and what really happened to the money. No hype, no shilling, just the cold facts and the insane details the mainstream never tells you.

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Bee Shelby

Episodes

The Wormhole Bridge Exploit: $326 Million in One Line of Code 08.12.2025 2:59

The $326 Million Wormhole Bridge Exploit – One Missing Line of Code, Eleven Minutes, Game Over February 2, 2022: a hacker submits a single transaction to the Wormhole bridge, fakes guardian signatures, and mints 120,000 wrapped ETH on Solana out of thin air — instantly worth $326 million. He cashes out in under 11 minutes, Jump Trading bails out the hole with their own ETH, and the hacker disappea...

The Ronin Network Hack: $625 Million Stolen by North Korea’s Lazarus Group 07.12.2025 4:31

The $625 Million Ronin / Axie Infinity Hack – How North Korea Stole a Play-to-Earn Empire Overnight March 2022: Lazarus Group, North Korea’s elite hacking unit, uses one fake job-offer PDF to compromise the Axie Infinity Ronin bridge and quietly walks away with $625 million in ETH and USDC — the biggest hack in crypto history at the time. The money went straight to funding missile programs while F...

The $610 Million Poly Network Heist: The Hacker Who Gave It All Back 06.12.2025 6:55

August 10, 2021: one lone hacker finds a single stupid bug in a cross-chain bridge and drains $610 million in under 15 minutes across Ethereum, BSC, and Polygon. What follows is the most bizarre 72 hours in crypto history — on-chain memes, public Q&A in transaction notes, death threats, a $500k white-hat bounty, and the thief slowly returning every dollar while roasting the team. We break down...