145 hack event(s)
Description of the event: Hackers steal $100,000+ worth of BTC from engineering manager at Crypto Custodian BitGo. Sean Coonce, engineering manager at cryptocurrency custodian BitGo. According to the post, Coonce had over $100,000 siphoned out of his account on cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase in under 24 hours. Coone details SIM swapping, a practice that sees the attacker maliciously requesting a telecommunications carrier to redirect the traffic of a mobile phone number to a device over which they have control.
Amount of loss: $ 100,000 Attack method: SIM Card Attack
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: 7,074 BTC Attack method: Wallet Stolen
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
Description of the event: Bitfinex is accused of sending 850 million U.S. dollars to Crypto Capital Corp, a payment processor believed to be located in Panama, without informing customers, and withdrawing at least 700 million U.S. dollars from Tether's reserves after the funds were lost.
Amount of loss: $ 851,000,000 Attack method: Scam
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the event: According to a report from CoinDesk Korea, the exchange was hacked for a total of 3.1 million EOS, which was withdrawn from the exchange’s “hot” (internet connected) wallet through a series of transactions.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
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: Wallet Stolen
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
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 Attack method: Unknown
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 Attack method: Wallet Stolen
Description of the event: The Etbox platform wallet was hacked, causing the platform’s digital assets to be stolen.
Amount of loss: $ 132,000 Attack method: Unknown
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
Description of the event: Coinbin, a south Korean cryptocurrency exchange, is filing for bankruptcy with losses equivalent to more than $26 million after its debts grew after employees embezzled money.
Amount of loss: $ 26,000,000 Attack method: Insider Manipulation
Description of the event: Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange is seeking creditor protection after losing about $190 million worth of cryptocurrency after the sudden death of its founder and chief executive in December.
Amount of loss: 195,000,000 Attack method: Founder and CEO suddenly died
Description of the event: LocalBitcoins has detected a security vulnerability - an unauthorised source was able to access and send transactions from a number of affected accounts.It was related to a feature powered by a third party software, and stop the attack. At the moment, we are determining the correct number of users affected - so far six cases have been confirmed.
Amount of loss: $ 27,000 Attack method: Third-party Software Vulnerability
Description of the event: A former employee of the now-defunct Cryptopia exchange allegedly stole more than 250,000 New Zealand dollars (US$182,300) of cryptocurrency and customer data from Cryptopia. However, the New Zealand authorities managed to recover the stolen funds and return them to Cryptopia's liquidator Grant Thornton. The man explained in detail how he stole the funds. He said that he unauthorizedly copied the private keys belonging to Cryptopia's many wallets and saved the data on a USB storage device. Then he uploaded the data to his personal computer at home. This allows him to use thousands of wallets and more than 100 million U.S. dollars in various cryptocurrencies.
Amount of loss: - Attack method: Private Key Leakage
Description of the event: From January 13th to 14th, a huge amount of unauthorized cryptocurrency transfer occurred in Cryptopia, which was suspected of being stolen. On January 15, the exchange posted a tweet claiming that it was hacked and 28,773 ETH was stolen. After that, on January 30th, the exchange experienced another security breach, stolen 1,675 ETH. On May 15, Cryptopia announced that it would enter the liquidation process.
Amount of loss: 17,500,000 Attack method: Security vulnerabilities
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: Malicious Code Injection Attack
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
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
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 Attack method: Wallet Stolen