Rekt News is a crypto cybersecurity and DeFi investigative media platform that publishes in-depth coverage of exploits, hacks, and incidents across the digital assets space. Rekt News's Twitter Score is 370 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #681 (top 0.5%) among 486,621 tracked accounts.
Rekt News was founded by Julien Bouteloup, who holds a European trademark registration for the platform. Its editorial focus spans crypto exploit reporting, DeFi incident analysis, cybersecurity intelligence, and AI-related developments. Recent articles have covered incidents involving Secret Network, Aztec, Humanity Protocol, Syscoin, TesseraDao, Gravity Bridge, DxSale, and THORChain, reflecting a broad scope of on-chain and protocol-level events.
Rekt News also maintains a running leaderboard of crypto losses and incidents, cataloguing loss amounts and dates across the industry. The platform accepts community support via a public ETH and ERC20 donation address. Rekt News has published 2,390 posts on the platform and has 656,895 followers as of September 2026. The account has been mentioned by 358 accounts a total of 772 times.
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The accounts that follow Rekt News include 1,517 founders, 439 angel investors, 618 influencers and 29 VCs. Among them are Erik Voorhees, Toly, Ansem, Laura Shin, Stani and Mike Dudas.