Exchange total loss money by hacked is about
$ 2,901,811,801.32
Exchange : 38 hack event(s)
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2019-05-08
Hacked target: Binance
Description of the event: Binance has discovered a large scale security breach today, May 7, 2019 at 17:15:24 (UTC). Hackers were able to obtain a large number of user API keys, 2FA codes, and potentially other info. The hackers used a variety of techniques, including phishing, viruses and other attacks. And the hackers were able to withdraw 7000 BTC. Link: https://binance.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360028031711-Binance-Security-Breach-Update
Amount of loss: 7074 BTC Attack method: Unknown -
2019-05-02
Hacked target: BitoPro
Description of the event: Taiwan exchange BitoPro's XRP suffered an attack that caused a price crash and is thought to have lost about 7m XRPS.
Amount of loss: 7,000,000 XRP Attack method: False top-up -
2019-03-29
Hacked target: Bithumb
Description of the event: According to a report from CoinDesk Korea, the exchange was hacked for a total of 3.1 million EOS, which was withdrawn from the exchange’s “hot” (internet connected) wallet through a series of transactions. Based on the data from CoinMarketCap, EOS is currently trading at $4.22, making the total value of the coins lost around $13 million. The company said in its statement that it suspects the hack was conducted by an insider, since no evidence of external exploit has been found.
Amount of loss: 3,132,672 EOS Attack method: Unknown -
2019-03-29
Hacked target: Bithumb
Description of the event: According to a report from CoinDesk Korea, Bithumb may have also lost 20.2 million XRP in the recent breach. The XRP was moved from Bithumb’s wallet on March 29 in transactions that can be seen on XRPSCAN.
Amount of loss: 20,172,060 XRP Attack method: Unknown -
2019-03-26
Hacked target: BiKi
Description of the event: BiKi.com announced that at 0:08:23 on March 26, the BiKi.com community received a user feedback that his password has been tampered with and need to bind the new Google verification code.At around 5 in the morning, 28 users had the same problem, and the risk control system received an alarm. After investigation, it is because some users are not bound to Google verification code and third-party verification code service provider SMS is hijacked and caused. At present, the number of of accounts that have been tampered with passwords is 37, and the account involved in asset transfer is 18, and the loss amount is 12.33 million USDT, the BiKi.com will bear the full amount of the loss.
Amount of loss: 123,300 USDT Attack method: unknown -
2019-03-26
Hacked target: CoinBene
Description of the event: Crypptocurrency expert Nick Schteringard said on Twitter yesterday, that the hacker appears to have stolen roughly $6 million in Coinbene Coin and $39 million in Maximine Coin, which it later dumped on the market.
Amount of loss: 45,000,000 USD Attack method: Unknown -
2019-03-24
Hacked target: DragonEx
Description of the event: DragonEx announced the news on its official Telegram channel on Monday, stating that, on Sunday, March 24, it had suffered a cyberattack that saw cryptocurrency funds owned by users and the exchange “transferred and stolen.” In updates on the hack today, DragonEx’s Telegram admin provided wallet addresses for 20 cryptocurrencies to which the stolen funds had apparently been transferred. The list included the top five cryptos by market capitalization: bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), XRP, litecoin (LTC) and EOS, as well as the tether stablecoin (USDT) for which six destination addresses were provided.
Amount of loss: ~ 6,028,283 USD Attack method: Unknown -
2019-03-24
Hacked target: Etbox
Description of the event: The Etbox platform wallet was hacked, causing the platform’s digital assets to be stolen
Amount of loss: 132,000 USD Attack method: unknown -
2019-03-15
Hacked target: Mercatox
Description of the event: The attacker launched a hard_fail attack on the exchange and profited thousands of EOS.
Amount of loss: - Attack method: Hard_fail attack -
2019-02-04
Hacked target: QuadrigaCX
Description of the event: 加拿大最大的加密货币交易所因为它在12月创始人兼首席执行官突然去世后失去加密货币价值约1.9亿美元，因此寻求债权人保护。
Amount of loss: - Attack method: Founder and CEO suddenly died -
2019-01-04
Hacked target: Cryptopia
Description of the event: Cryptopia is a cryptocurrency exchange based out of New Zealand. On January 14th, 2019, they suffered a breach:14th January 2019, the Cryptopia Exchange suffered a security breach which resulted in significant losses. Once identified by staff, the exchange was put into maintenance while we assessed damages. Estimates put the losses at $2.5m-$13m USD in Ethereum and ERC20 tokens being stolen. Two law enforcement press releases were issued. Funds were seen to be exfiltrated to several exchanges for laundering, as noted in this Binance tweet.
Amount of loss: 30448 ETH Attack method: Unknown -
2018-11-07
Hacked target: GATE.IO
Description of the event: Hackers successfully sandwiched crypto-stealing code into the middle of a popular web traffic-measuring plugin from StatCounter, which is now used on more than two million websites, including government sites. They have determined, however, that the rather wide swath of infections may have been designed to eventually infect cryptocurrency trading sites, and that the scheme did, in fact, infect popular crypto-trading site Gate.io. By situating the code in the middle of StatCounter’s downloadable javascript web traffic analysis tool, hackers made it harder to detect.
Amount of loss: - Attack method: Third-party JavaScript is hijacked -
2018-10-28
Hacked target: MapleChange
Description of the event: MapleChange, based in Canada, announced on Twitter the exchange "sustained a hack" and was investigating the issue. The post also said the exchange had turned off users' accounts temporarily. About refunding its customers, it opened a Discord server (a platform for users to chat) so customers could post there about their missing funds, based on which it would initiate refunds. The exchange's website was down.
Amount of loss: 913 BTC Attack method: Unknown -
2018-10-20
Hacked target: TRADE.IO
Description of the event: Trade.io confirmed via their Medium blog that someone or some entity gained access to the assets, resulting in over 50 million in Trade (TIO) tokens being stolen from the firm’s cold storage wallets. The 50 million tokens are valued at $7.5 million at the current $0.15 price per TIO. The ongoing investigation has revealed that some of the TIO tokens had made their way to cryptocurrency exchanges Bancor and Kucoin. Kucoin has suspended TIO transactions, while Bancor has permanently removed TIO.
Amount of loss: 50,000,000 TIO Attack method: Unknown -
2018-09-14
Hacked target: ZAIF
Description of the event: Hackers with unauthorized access to the exchange’s hot wallets had stolen roughly $60 million in bitcoin, bitcoin cash, and MonaCoin. That being said, the exact amount of bitcoin cash stolen remains unknown.
Amount of loss: ~ 59,000,000 USD Attack method: Unknown -
2018-07-26
Hacked target: KICKICO
Description of the event: KICKICO has experienced a security breach, which resulted in the attackers gaining access to the account of the KICK smart contract — tokens of the KICKICO platform. The team learned about this incident after the complaints of several victims, who did not find tokens worth 800 thousand dollars in their wallets. During the investigation, it was found that the total amount of stolen funds is 70,000,000 KICK, which at the current exchange rate is equivalent to $ 7.7 million.
Amount of loss: 7,000 KICK Attack method: Unknown -
2018-06-21
Hacked target: Bithumb
Description of the event: The attacker stole $30 million worth of cryptocurrency from Bithumb, Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange. According to Japanese Cointelegraph, the attackers hijacked Bithumb's popular (online) wallet.
Amount of loss: 30,000,000 USD Attack method: Unknown -
2018-06-12
Hacked target: Coinrail
Description of the event: Coinrail acknowledged the existence of “network intrusion” in its system and estimated that 40 billion won ($37.2 million) worth of coins were stolen. The police are investigating violations but have not announced further details.
Amount of loss: 37,200,000 USD Attack method: Network intrusion -
2018-05-21
Hacked target: TAYLOR
Description of the event: TAYLOR’ve been hacked and all of our funds have been stolen. Not only the balance in ETH (2,578.98 ETH), but also the TAY tokens from the Team and Bounty pools. The only tokens that were not stolen are the ones from the Founders’ and Advisors’ pools, because there’s a vesting contract making them inaccessible for now.
Amount of loss: 2578.98 ETH Attack method: Unknown -
2018-04-12
Hacked target: COINSECURE
Description of the event: A failed cold storage restoration exercise seems to have exposed private keys intended for offline storage (effectively making them online). However, the CEO has expressed an insider’s involvement. Police found private keys exposed online for more than 12 hours.
Amount of loss: 438 BTC Attack method: Unknown -
2018-02-12
Hacked target: BitGrail
Description of the event: BitGrail claims that $195 million of customers have stolen cryptocurrencies in Nano (XRB).
Amount of loss: 195,000,000 USD Attack method: Unknown -
2018-01-26
Hacked target: Coincheck
Description of the event: Unidentified assailants stole 523 million NEM coins (about $534 million) from the exchange's hot wallet. According to Coincheck, NEM coins are kept on a single-signature hot wallet instead of a more secure multi-signature wallet, and the stolen coins are confirmed to be Coincheck customers.
Amount of loss: 534,000,000 USD Attack method: Unknown -
2017-12-19
Hacked target: YOUBIT
Description of the event: In the wee hours of December 19, Youbit was dealt a death blow in the form of another hack. The exchange, which was also hit in April, is closing down in the fallout of the most recent attack. As revealed on its website, they had been forced to terminate its services after suffering another hack. The hackers ran off with 17% of Youbit’s funds, enough to drive the exchange into bankruptcy.
Amount of loss: - Attack method: Unknown -
2017-12-08
Hacked target: Nicehash
Description of the event: Nicehash appears to have shuttered their website with a notice saying “a security breach involving NiceHash website” and “our payment system was compromised and the contents of the NiceHash Bitcoin wallet have been stolen”.
Amount of loss: 4736.42 BTC Attack method: Unknown -
2017-11-21
Hacked target: Tether
Description of the event: Hacked, $10 million worth of bitcoin stolen.
Amount of loss: 31,000,000 USD Attack method: Hacker break-in -
2017-07-26
Hacked target: BTC-e
Description of the event: 66,000 BTCs worth $990 million.
Amount of loss: 990,000,000 USD Attack method: Unknown -
2017-07-19
Hacked target: Coindash
Description of the event: Hacker steals $7.4 million in ethereum during CoinDash ICO launch. At the time of the ICO, in which CoinDash posted a string of characters which represented its wallet address for investors to send funds to, it appears that the hacker compromised the website and changed this text to a wallet they control. It was a matter of minutes before the platform realized the security breach had taken place and warned investors, but it was too late -- and now the stolen funds intended for CoinDash are simply sitting in a wallet awaiting collection.
Amount of loss: 7,400,000 USD Attack method: Destroy the website, replace the address. -
2017-06-21
Hacked target: Bithumb
Description of the event: Bithumb is one of the five largest bitcoin exchanges in the world. Hackers succeeded in grabbing the personal information of 31,800 Bithumb website users, including their names, mobile phone numbers and email addresses. The exchange claims that this number represents approximately three percent of customers. And the exchange further claims that the breach was made to a personal computer belonging to an employee, and not the exchange’s internal network, servers nor digital currency wallets. Attackers appear to have stolen enough credentials to begin a process of “voice phishing,” where the scammers call up victims one at a time and pose as representatives of Bithumb.
Amount of loss: 1,000,000 USD Attack method: Phishing -
2017-04-27
Hacked target: Yapizon
Description of the event: Yapizon, a South Korean Bitcoin exchange, announced last week it lost 3831 Bitcoin (over $5.5 million) after an unknown hacker breached its system and stole funds from its server.
Amount of loss: 3,831BTC Attack method: Unknown -
2016-08-03
Hacked target: Bitfinex
Description of the event: Nearly 120,000 units of digital currency bitcoin worth about $72 million was stolen from the exchange platform Bitfinex in Hong Kong. There is still unknown how did it happended.
Amount of loss: 119,756 BTC Attack method: Unknown -
2016-05-14
Hacked target: Gatecoin
Description of the event: Gatecoin experienced a cyberattack on its hot wallets that resulted in the loss of funds. A new update from the exchange team indicated that as much as $2m was lost, confirming rumors that circulated soon after the hack became apparent. Gatecoin has claimed that it lost as much as 185,000 ethers and 250 bitcoins, an amount worth roughly $2.14m at press time.
Amount of loss: 2,000,000 USD Attack method: Server is hacked -
2015-02-18
Hacked target: KipCoin
Description of the event: KipCoin announced that the attacker gained access to the server in 2014 and downloaded the wallet.dat file. A few months later, the attacker stole more than 3,000 BTC.
Amount of loss: ~ 3000 BTC Attack method: Server is hacked -
2015-02-17
Hacked target: BTER
Description of the event: BTER announced that it lost 7,170 BTC (then worth $1.75 million). The company claims that BTC was stolen from a cold wallet.
Amount of loss: 1,750,000 USD Attack method: Cold wallet stolen -
2015-01-09
Hacked target: Bitstamp
Description of the event: Bitstamp reported that multiple operating wallets were damaged, resulting in the loss of 19,000 bitcoins. The company was hacked by multiple phishing attacks in the months before the attack. An employee downloaded a malicious file that allowed an attacker to access the password of the company's hot wallet and the server including the wallet.dat file.
Amount of loss: 19,000 BTC Attack method: Phishing -
2014-08-15
Hacked target: BTER
Description of the event: Managed server was attacked.
Amount of loss: 1,650,000 USD Attack method: Managed server was attacked -
2014-07-14
Hacked target: MintPal
Description of the event: MintPal announce that the attacker stole 8 million VeriCoins ($1.8 million) from the company's hot wallet. The attacker exploited a vulnerability in its system that allowed them to bypass the security controls to withdraw funds.
Amount of loss: 1,800,000 USD Attack method: Unknown -
2014-03-04
Hacked target: Poloniex
Description of the event: Digital currency exchange Poloniex, which trades bitcoin and other popular digital currencies such as litecoin, namecoin and dogecoin, has lost 12.3% of its total bitcoin supply in an attack. The exchange took to Bitcoin Forum on 4th March to report it had been compromised by a previously unknown vulnerability in its coding.
Amount of loss: 97 BTC Attack method: Unknown -
2014-02-24
Hacked target: Mt. Gox
Description of the event: The first one happened in June 2011 when the hacker was able to get ahold of Mt.Gox’s auditor’s credentials and transferred 2609 bitcoins to an address for which Mt. Gox had no keys. This led to the suspension of Mt. Gox operations for several days; but they sustained themselves in the market, and they were able to regain the trust of users. On 24 February 2014, the exchange suspended all trading and the website went offline. That same week, a leaked corporate document claimed that hackers had raided that Mt. Gox exchange and stole 744,408 bitcoins belonging to Mt. Gox customers, as well as an additional 100,000 bitcoins belonging to the company, resulting in the exchange being declared to be insolvent.
Amount of loss: 850,000 BTC Attack method: Unknown