 Stealing cryptocurrency is not easy, but hackers have more than doubled their ill-gotten gains in the past year. Here's tech correspondent Chuck Palm. 2024 has been a banner year for hackers. The amount of cryptocurrency stolen in hacks globally has more than doubled in the first six months of this year. Hackers have stolen more than $1.38 billion worth of crypto since June of 2024, compared with $657 million the same period in 2023.