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- List of Hacked Exchanges, since 2011:

I would like to share this list of hacked exchanges, after viewing the data, consider how and where you store your Bitcoins.
Several types of scams appear in different sources of news, theft or loss of BTC at the individual level.
I prefer to focus on the hacking of exchanges which is what affects us all, but due to the importance of some Bitcoin thefts outside the exchanges, I will include the most important.
If someone wants to publish their personal experience with any of these unpleasant situations, feel free to do so.

Since 2011 have stolen millions of dollars from exchanges, account theft, security breaches, phishing, some recovered others filed for bankruptcy. The solution adopted by governments to improve security is to implement more stringent and regulatory policies.

- This is a list exchanges hacked 2011/2018, I hope I do not have to update this year.
- 2019 has been worse than the previous year.

2020 I have updated some data and renewed the presentation of the incidents of the exchanges, I have more references obtained from several sources, once contrasted with mine they give a wider result of exchanges that have suffered some type of attack, so the presentation is annual to have a more specific vision of each year.

The sources are basically online portals and social networks that warn about hacked exchange, once verified it is included in the corresponding list of the year.

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2011 > 7
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Year Month Exchange   Amount/$ Hacked   Source:

2011  Jun. MTGOX          30.000    2.000 / BTC    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox#Security_breach_and_invalid_addresses_(2011)
2011  Jun. Mass MyBitcoin  60.000            4.000 / BTC    blog.goodaudience.com
2011  Jul. Ubitex  15.575    1.138 / BTC    en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_Major_Bitcoin_Heists,_Thefts,_and_Losses
2011  Jul. Bitomat.pl 231.570   17.000 / BTC    coindesk.com/hacker-attack-polands-bitcoin-exchange
2011  Aug. MyBitcoin                   1.072.500   78.735 / BTC   arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/a-brief-history-of-bitcoin-hacks-and-frauds/
2011  Sep. Mooncoin  22.300    4.000 / BTC    @wayne_huang medium.com
2011  Oct. Bitcoin7          50.000    5.000 / BTC    coinsutra.com/biggest-bitcoin-hacks/

2012 > 5
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Year Month Exchange   Amount/$ Hacked   Source:

2012  Mar. Bitcoinica 228.000   43.000 / BTC   hackernoon.com/a-huge-list-of-cryptocurrency-thefts-16d6bf246389
2012  May. Bitcoinica  87.000   18.457 / BTC   hackernoon.com/a-huge-list-of-cryptocurrency-thefts-16d6bf246389
2012  Jul. Bitcoinica 300.000   40.000 / BTC   news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-exchange-thefts-forgotten
2012  Jul. BTC-e    4.500 / BTC   bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/btc-e-attacked-1343738085
2012  Sep. Bitfloor 250.000   24.000 / BTC    coinsutra.com/biggest-bitcoin-hacks/

2013 > 18
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Year Month Exchange   Amount/$ Hacked   Source:

2013  Feb. Bit LC    Not revealed            2.000 / BTC   themerkle.com/top-5-bitcoin-heists-of-2013/
2013  Mar. Bitcoin Rain 230.000    4.000 / BTC   bitcoinsaints.blogspot.com/p/3rd-mt.html
2013  Mar. BTC Guild    Not revealed            1.254 / BTC    bitcoinsaints.blogspot.com/p/3rd-mt.html
2013  Apr. Ozcoin 100.000      923 / BTC    bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/ozcoin-hacked
2013  Apr. ZigGap 195.000    1.708 / BTC    bitcoinsaints.blogspot.com/p/3rd-mt.html
2013  Apr. Bitcoin Central    Not revealed    x.xxx / BTC   coindesk.com/hackers-hit-bitcoin-central-exchange
2013  May. Vircurex 160.000    1.450 / BTC   coiniq.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/
2013  Jun. PicoStocks         130.000    1.300 / BTC    coiniq.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/
2013  Aug. Android RNG bug    Not revealed       60 / BTC    bitcoinsaints.blogspot.com/p/3rd-mt.html
2013  Oct. basic-mining    Not revealed    2.131 / BTC    bitcoinsaints.blogspot.com/p/3rd-mt.html
2013  Oct. GBL    Not revealed           22.000 / BTC    bitcoinsaints.blogspot.com/p/3rd-mt.html
2013  Oct. Silk Road FBI confiscation  171.955 / BTC    Silk Road - FBI.gov
2013  Nov. Just-Dice 108.807    1.300 / BTC   https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Talk:Inputs.io
2013  Nov. Bips    Not revealed    1.295 / BTC    thehackernews.com/2013/11/danish-bitcoin-exchange-bips-hacked-and_25.html
2013  Nov. Bidextreme    Not revealed      500 / BTC    bitcoinsaints.blogspot.com/p/3rd-mt.html
2013  Nov. bitcash.cz 100.000              485 / BTC    coindesk.com/czech-bitcoin-exchange-bitcash-cz-hacked-4000-user-wallets-emptied
2013  Nov. inputs.io       1.200.000    4.100 / BTC    wired.com/2013/11/inputs/
2013  Nov. PicoStocks       3.000.000    5.896 / BTC   coiniq.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/
2013  Dec. Sheep Market 100.000    5.400 / BTC    coindesk.com/sheep-marketplace-track-stolen-bitcoins

2014 > 12
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Year Month Exchange   Amount/$ Hacked   Source:

2014  Feb. Silk Road 2       2.600.000    4.476 / BTC    coindesk.com/silk-road-2-loses-bitcoins-hack
2014  Feb. Mt.Gox     473.000.000      750.000 / BTC    cointelegraph.com/news/the-mess-that-was-mt-gox-four-years-on
2014  Mar. Bitcurex            Not revealed  / BTC   coindesk.com/polish-bitcoin-exchange-bitcurex-targeted-hacking-attack
2014  Mar. Canadian Bitcoins  95.000      149 / BTC    coindesk.com/9-biggest-screwups-bitcoin-history
2014  Mar. Flexcoin         600.000              896 / BTC    coindesk.com/bitcoin-bank-flexcoin-close-600000-bitcoin-theft
2014  Mar. CryptoRush         570.000      950 / BTC    coiniq.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/#Cryptorush
2014  Mar. Poloniex          64.000       97 / BTC    coiniq.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/#Cryptorush
2014  Jul. Cryptsy               7.500.000   13.000 / BTC    coindesk.com/cryptsy-bankruptcy-millions-bitcoin-stolen
2014  Aug. BTER       1.065.000  / NXT    coindesk.com/bter-nxt-bitcoin-exchange-hack
2014  Oct. KipCoin         690.000    3.000 / BTC    selfkey.org/list-of-cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/
2014  Oct. MintPal       1.300.000     / VeriCoin    cointelegraph.com/news/mintpal-hacked-considerable-amount-of-vericoin-stolen
2014  Dec. BitPay       1.800.000    5.000 / BTC    siliconangle.com/2015/09/17/bitpay-hacked-for-1-8-million-in-bitcoin-during-december-2014/

2015 > 7
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Year Month Exchange   Amount/$ Hacked   Source:

2015  Jan. LocalBitcoins       17 / BTC    newsbtc.com/2015/01/29/localbitcoins-hacked-17-bitcoins-stolen-amongst-users/
2015  Jan. 796Exchange         230.000    1.000 / BTC    coiniq.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/#2015
2015  Jan. Bitstamp       5.200.000   19.000 / BTC    coiniq.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/#Bitstamp
2015  Feb. BTER       1.750.000    7.170 / BTC    coindesk.com/bter-to-return-hacked-funds-following-security-partnership
2015  Feb. KipCoin 600.000    3.000 / BTC    newsbtc.com/2015/02/19/chinese-bitcoin-exchange-kipcoin-shuts-claims-losing-3000-btc-hackers/
2015  May. Coinapult  42.900      150 / BTC    coindesk.com/coinapult-loses-40k-hot-wallet-compromise
2015  May. Bitfinex       Hot Wallet Hacked    1.500 / BTC    cointelegraph.com/news/breaking-bitfinex-hot-wallet-hacked-bitcoins-stolen

2016 > 5
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Year Month Exchange   Amount/$ Hacked   Source:

2016  Mar. Cointrader    Not revealed       Shuts Down    coindesk.com/bitcoin-exchange-cointrader-shuts-down
2016  Apr. Shapeshift 230.000              469 / BTC    coiniq.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/#2016
2016  May. Gatecoin       2.140.000              250 / BTC    coiniq.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/#2016
2016  Aug. Bitfinex      77.000.000  119.700 / BTC    coiniq.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/#2016
2016  Oct. Bitcurex       1.500.000    2.300 / BTC    news.bitcoin.com/bitcurex-forced-million-theft/

2017 > 5
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Year Month Exchange   Amount/$ Hacked   Source:

2017  Apr. Yapizon (Youbit)       5.300.000    3.816 / BTC    news.bitcoin.com/hacked-korean-bitcoin-exchange-yapizon-offers-ious/
2017  Jun. Bithumb      31.000.000         Crypto    coindesk.com/bithumb-exchanges-31-million-hack-know-dont-know
2017  Aug. OKEx       3.000.000      600 / BTC    cointelegraph.com/news/chinese-bitcoin-exchange-okex-hacked-for-3-mln-police-not-interested
2017  Dec. Nicehash      65.000.000    4.736 / BTC    coindesk.com/62-million-gone-cryptocurrency-mining-market-nicehash-hacked
2017  Dec. Youbit       Stolen 17% of its assets      Shut Down    https://coiniq.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/#2017

2018 > 9
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Year Month Exchange   Amount/$ Hacked   Source:

2018  Jan. Coincheck       500.000.000  / NEM    coindesk.com/coincheck-confirms-crypto-hack-loss-larger-than-mt-gox
2018  Feb. BitGrail         187.000.000  /Nano    bitcoinist.com/bitgrail-cryptocurrency-exchange-hacked-170-million-nano-allegedly-stolen/
2018  Mar. Foxbit 270.000       30 / BTC    finance.yahoo.com/news/270-000-brazil-largest-bitcoin-172549113.html
2018  Apr. Coinsecure       3.500.000      430 / BTC    bitcoinist.com/3-5-million-bitcoin-stolen-coinsecure-exchange-hack-security-chief-suspected/
2018  May. Bitcoin Gold      18.000.000  / BTG    news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-gold-hacked-for-18-million/
2018  Jun. Coinrail          40.000.000           Crypto    bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/south-korean-exchange-coinrail-hacked-40-million-crypto-reported-stolen
2018  Jun. Bithumb      30.000.000 Crypto    cointelegraph.com/news/from-coincheck-to-bithumb-2018-s-largest-security-breaches-so-far
2018  Jul. Bancor        13.500.000   Crypto    coindesk.com/token-platform-bancor-goes-offline-following-security-breach
2018  Sep. Zaif        60.000.000     Crypto / BTC    coindesk.com/crypto-exchange-zaif-hacked-in-60-million-6000-bitcoin-theft

2019 > 16
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Year Month Exchange   Amount/$ Hacked   Source:

2019  Jan. Cryptopia      16.000.000   Crypto / ETH    twitter.com/Cryptopia_NZ/status/1085084168852291586
2019  Jan. Liqui Crypto       lack of liquidity      Shut Down    cointelegraph.com/news/ukrainian-crypto-exchange-liqui-shuts-down-cites-lack-of-liquidity
2019  Jan. QuadrigaCX     190.000.000 Blocked   coindesk.com/quadriga-creditor-protection-filing
2019  Feb. Coinmama 450.000       emails+passwords   ccn.com/exchange-coinbene-swears-it-wasnt-hacked-traders-fear-the-worst
2019  Mar. DragonEx    Not revealed         Crypto    coindesk.com/singapore-based-crypto-exchange-dragonex-has-been-hacked
2019  Mar. Coinbene    Not revealed Blocked   blockonomi.com/coinbene-hacked-exchange-says-not/
2019  Mar. Bithumb      13.000.000         Crypto    coindesk.com/crypto-exchange-bithumb-hacked-for-13-million-in-suspected-insider-job
2019  May. Binance      41.000.000    7.000 / BTC    cointelegraph.com/news/hackers-withdraw-7-000-bitcoins-in-binance-crypto-exchange-security-breach
2019  Jun. GateHub      10.000.000  / XRP    cointelegraph.com/news/report-nearly-10-million-in-xrp-stolen-in-gatehub-hack
2019  Jun. Bitrue       5.000.000   cointelegraph.com/news/singaporean-exchange-bitrue-gets-hacked-losing-5-million-in-xrp-cardano
2019  Jun. Bitsane    Not revealed           cointelegraph.com/news/exit-scam-dublin-based-exchange-bitsane-vanishes-with-users-funds
2019  Jun. Bitcoins Norway    Not revealed   news.trijo.co/news/norwegian-crypto-exchange-wants-to-force-users-to-sell-their-cryptocurrencies/?lang=en
2019  Jun. BitMarket    Not revealed      Shut Down    cointelegraph.com/news/polish-crypto-exchange-bitmarket-shuts-down-citing-liquidity-loss
2019  Jul. Bitpoint      32.000.000           Crypto / BTC    cointelegraph.com/news/japanese-crypto-exchange-bitpoint-suffers-32-million-hack
2019  Nov. Upbit      49.000.000  342.000 / ETH    coindesk.com/crypto-exchange-upbit-confirms-theft-of-49m-in-ether
2019  Dec. PlusToken Ponzi       scammers    coindesk.com/chainalysis-report-on-plustoken-scammers-blamed-for-mondays-crypto-selloff

2020 > 6
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Year Month Exchange   Amount/$ Hacked   Source:

2020  Jul. Cashaa         -------        336 / BTC   cointelegraph.com/news/hacker-stole-336-btc-from-crypto-exchange-cashaa
2020  Feb. Altsbit          63.000   Crypto / BTC    coindesk.com/new-crypto-exchange-altsbit-says-it-will-close-following-hack
2020  Sep. Eterbase       5.300.000   Crypto / BTC    coingeek.com/european-exchange-hacked-for-over-5-million/
2020  Sep. KuCoin             150.000.000   Crypto / BTC   decrypt.co/43015/cryptocurrency-exchange-kucoin-likely-hacked-reports
2020  Dec. Livecoin       465.000    Crypto / BTC    zdnet.com/article/russian-crypto-exchange-livecoin-hacked-after-it-lost-control-of-its-servers/
2020  Dec. Altilly                       -------    ------------    canadaecoin.site/altilly-hack/

Please, post your comment if you are affected by this unpleasant situation or how you solved it, of course, it can help a lot.



Before this thread, in the forum there was a thread with very detailed information, but it is no longer updated, I leave the link in case you want to visit it, maybe some information is useful for you.

List of Major Bitcoin Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83794.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576337.0

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- List of exchanges that have suffered an attack in alphabetical order:

You can also see the number of times they have been hacked per year.

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Exchange      Hacks/Year      Hacks/Year      Hacks/Year

796Exchange 1/2015
Altsbit 1/2020
Android RNG bug 1/2013
Bancor 1/2018
basic-mining 1/2013
Bidextreme 1/2013
Binance 1/2019
Bips 1/2013
Bit LC 1/2013
bitcash.cz 1/2013
Bitcoin Central 1/2013
Bitcoin Gold 1/2018
Bitcoin Rain 1/2013
Bitcoin7 1/2011
Bitcoinica 3/2012
Bitcoins Norway 1/2019
Bitcurex 1/2014 1/2016
Bitfinex 1/2015 1/2016
Bitfloor 1/2012
BitGrail 1/2018
Bithumb 1/2017 1/2018 1/2019
BitMarket 1/2019
Bitomat.pl 1/2011
BitPay 1/2014
Bitpoint 1/2019
Bitrue 1/2019
Bitsane 1/2019
Bitstamp 1/2015
BTC Guild 1/2013
BTC-e 1/2012
BTER 1/2014 1/2015
Cashaa 1/2020
Canadian Bitcoins 1/2014
Coinapult 1/2015
Coinbene 1/2019
Coincheck 1/2018
Coinmama 1/2019
Coinrail 1/2018
Coinsecure 1/2018
Cointrader 1/2016
Cryptopia 1/2019
CryptoRush 1/2014
Cryptsy 1/2014
Dec. Sheep Market 1/2013
DragonEx 1/2019
Eterbase 1/2020
Flexcoin 1/2014
Foxbit 1/2018
Gatecoin 1/2016
GateHub 1/2019
GBL 1/2013
inputs.io 1/2013
Just-Dice 1/2013
KipCoin 1/2014 1/2015
Liqui Crypto 1/2019
LocalBitcoins 1/2015
Mass MyBitcoin 1/2011
MintPal 1/2014
Mooncoin 1/2011
MTGOX 1/2011 1/2014
MyBitcoin 1/2011
Nicehash 1/2017
OKEx 1/2017
Ozcoin 1/2013
PicoStocks     2/2013
PlusToken Ponzi 1/2019
Poloniex 1/2014
QuadrigaCX 1/2019
Shapeshift 1/2016
Silk Road   1/2013 1/2014
Ubitex 1/2011
Upbit 1/2019
Vircurex 1/2013
Yapizon 1/2017
Youbit 1/2017
Zaif 1/2018
ZigGap 1/2013




The amount of stolen Bitcoins is very high, it's a lot of money, some advices, do not enter into paranoid mode, just follow common sense:

  • How to save your Bitcoin

- Last Updated official OS + Antivirus
- Not download movies..., videos, games, compromised pages...
- Clear browser cache.
- Everything connected by cable, outside wireless keyboard, wireless mouse and wifi printer.
- Activate 2FA + Backup (Exchange).

  • Wallets

- Software: Bitcoin Core, download in official page, encrypt wallet.dat + backup.
- Hardware: Buy in manufacturer's page, Trezor, Ledger, Keepkey, just install manufacturer firmware updates.
- Paper: Paper Walet generate the offline address.
- Cryptosteel: backup private key or seed.
- All backups outside of the computer.

  • Phishing

- Not accept links, mails, social networks to exchange, update wallets or firmware.
- Attention to web addresses and domain extension.

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This is very bad, to here that exchanges are been hack by some set guy it very sad. However, my view by the exchanges hack is that most time that this happen some set of people that have access to the data base of the exchanges link those guys that hack the exchanges. Let everybody be careful this coming new year. Best of luck to all traders.
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Exchange  Year        Amount / Month   
         
Poloniex    2014 <      64.000 $ March
Damn. I did not expect that Poloniex was a victim of hacking. I just find out that Poloniex was hacked in 2014 and suffered a loss of $64K from you.

After viewing the data, consider how and where you store your Bitcoins.
I have never stored my assets on an exchange. Because I realized that cybercrime is in anywhere and can attack anyone.
Before that happened to me, I anticipate it by buying Trezor hardware wallet and storing Bitcoin within it. Perhaps, the right way to keep Bitcoin safe is storing Bitcoin on hardware wallet like trezor and or ledger.
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500 mil $ hack in 2018? Damn. I dont know how I missed it. Thanks for sharing.

Im daytrader so i need to store my bitcoins on exchange but i withdraw profit every 0.2 btc.
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500 mil $ hack in 2018? Damn. I dont know how I missed it. Thanks for sharing.

Im daytrader so i need to store my bitcoins on exchange but i withdraw profit every 0.2 btc.

2018 is really a history itself. Not because it is about to end but because of the endless mischief that happens all throughout the year.

Great profits, I wonder why you share that info  Huh What's the point LOL
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I'm sure there are plenty more small hacks of major exchanges and hacks on small lesser known exchanges that go unreported. There are also probably quite a few scams in there that are reported as hacks - BitGrail for example. I haven't followed the story in several months, but last I checked it seemed like the owner exit scammed with millions of dollars worth of Nano, said that he had been "hacked" to try to avoid the law, and there was a class action lawsuit against him.

Still, the total of your listed hacks comes to over $1.3 billion, and so the real value is likely to be even higher than that. The only coins that you should store on an exchange are coins you are actively trading. Anything you are not trading, or buying to hold, should be immediately transferred out to a private (non-web) wallet.
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Great profits, I wonder why you share that info  Huh What's the point LOL

Op said:

Please, post your comment if you are affected by this unpleasant situation or how you solved it, of course, it can help a lot.

As daytrader im affected a lot because i have to store my coins on exchange. I take a risk and withdrawing profit is a way to minimalize this risk. Thats why i shared this. And you can't say that this is great profit because i didnt say how often i'm withdrawing my profit. I only said that btc amount is indicator to withdraw. It might be once a year or once a day Smiley
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The real scary part is how the numbers increased like crazy at the end there. I mean we all remember when cryptsy and mt.gox got hacked and lost a bunch of bitcoins (well "hacked" but I think they have it) but in the end if you look just 2018 hacked places and how much they were hacked, it is just double the rest in on year probably.

It is really getting out of hand because hackers probably realized that they are literally taking money governments are not caring about so its getting easier for them to steal bitcoin, it would be a lot harder and riskier if they hacked people to get dollars but hacking for bitcoin is better for them.

About 800 million dollars! was stolen this year, that is really crazy to think someone has that much crypto currencies as a person (or a group) and they got it scott free without any punishment.
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It is really getting out of hand because hackers probably realized that they are literally taking money governments are not caring about so its getting easier for them to steal bitcoin, it would be a lot harder and riskier if they hacked people to get dollars but hacking for bitcoin is better for them.


Its not the only reason why they are stealing bitcoins. Its easier for them because crypto exchanges has weaker security, U can easily make them disappear  - (transfer to new exchange, buy monero (private untrackable coin than even FBI wasnt able to track) for it, tranfer to monero wallet, to next monero wallet, back to another exchange, sell for bitcoin, withdraw bitcoins). And you have bitcoins on your wallet that noone know from where they are. While stealing USD from bank account you need to transfer them to your bank account where you gave ID to create it (I didnt see anywhere bank that didnt need ID to create account).
It is also easy to steel bitcoin from detail users because lots of them dont know the technology, how to store or even transfer coins. I heard that more than 10% airdrop participants give in forms etherum private key instead of public  ... lol ... and then they loose coins and say "i was hacked".
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December 29, 2018, 08:04:13 PM
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People in the know should give a bit more information about each individual hack if they know some background. People may learn from it.

For instance the $500 million Coincheck hack was down to the exchange operators keeping ALL of the stolen funds in a hot wallet. Literally none was elsewhere.

XEM was the currency stolen. XEM has multi sig actually built into its blockchain. It costs nothing, it's a piece of piss to implement, it would've made this hack impossible, yet they chose not to do it. Even if they couldn't be arsed to do that, had they spent $100 on one Trezor this hack would not have been possible.

That's the calibre of people operating exchanges.

80% of the money stolen was their own. The customers got paid back.

And folks should be made aware of Bter. That is now Gate.io. Bter claimed to have had their hosting compromised and then resolved to pay back customers the 7000 or so BTC nicked with some sort of token funded through trading fees. They eventually got bored of that, gave up and were miraculously reborn as gate.io. Presumably the same people are still running it.
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December 29, 2018, 08:22:12 PM
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Was binance hacked? I remember that there was some doubt as to what had actually happened. But many consider that it had been hacked and some users lost a lot of money. There was Syscoin, too.

https://medium.com/@AnthonytXie/a-thorough-investigation-of-the-binance-hack-dc588cd0c2f5

https://www.ccn.com/bitmain-sues-mystery-bitcoin-thief-who-hacked-its-binance-account/
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December 29, 2018, 10:01:13 PM
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Whoa! I didn't know that Coincheck was the first one to go on the top list of biggest stolen cryptocurrency in the world and now MtGox is in the second place. Some of these exchanges has a very low security of storing their tokens on a secure wallet. That's why it is too easy to hack most of them. I wonder what would the thief could do to that stolen tokens if it is being listed on the watch list.
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December 29, 2018, 10:38:16 PM
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to be honest, I never knew that Mt Gox was an exchange, because I thought it was like a Financial Institution. And more surprisingly, the record of Mt Gox in terms of hacking is truly astounding. Have those who have been in it never learned about the importance of security exchange that must be truly fulfilled? very sad for victims of hacking the exchange above.

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to be honest, I never knew that Mt Gox was an exchange, because I thought it was like a Financial Institution. And more surprisingly, the record of Mt Gox in terms of hacking is truly astounding. Have those who have been in it never learned about the importance of security exchange that must be truly fulfilled? very sad for victims of hacking the exchange above.

When it comes to convenience and volume, ie greed, people are only too happy to throw their doubts away.

Gox was still recommended on the main Bitcoin sites when I first got properly interested in 2013. I spent five minutes researching it - hacked before, passwords revealed in the browser address bar, shutdowns and rollbacks, unregulated in a country thousands of miles from me, who's the guy on the beach ball? - and I went straight to Localbitcoins instead.
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to be honest, I never knew that Mt Gox was an exchange, because I thought it was like a Financial Institution. And more surprisingly, the record of Mt Gox in terms of hacking is truly astounding. Have those who have been in it never learned about the importance of security exchange that must be truly fulfilled? very sad for victims of hacking the exchange above.

Mt. Gox is a popular exchange before, some insinuating that  its an inside job. Exchanges are target of hackers nowadays since it handles bigger volumes. Investment on online security is a must for this exchanges so that it can win trusts from its clients.

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December 30, 2018, 02:03:57 AM
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From all that list it means someone who said if we put our money on exchanger, that means we not have control for it anymore. Maybe that is what people want to said, maybe it is bad if we put all our money in exchanger.

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Exchange   Year        Amount / Month  
          
Poloniex     2014 <      64.000 $ March
Damn. I did not expect that Poloniex was a victim of hacking. I just find out that Poloniex was hacked in 2014 and suffered a loss of $64K from you.

After viewing the data, consider how and where you store your Bitcoins.
I have never stored my assets on an exchange. Because I realized that cybercrime is in anywhere and can attack anyone.
Before that happened to me, I anticipate it by buying Trezor hardware wallet and storing Bitcoin within it. Perhaps, the right way to keep Bitcoin safe is storing Bitcoin on hardware wallet like trezor and or ledger.

Poloniex was a textbook example of how to proceed.

The owner at the time (Tristan) sent out messages explaining the situation. The lost coin for each user was shown in the dashboards, but not accessable. Eventual repayment was promised, and this was done in small increments, as and when profits allowed. Not sure, but I think the total was greater than the 64k quoted.

Thus, the exchange continued to trade and was solvent, whilst establishing a trustworthy reputation..
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I see may exchange were hacked above, even poloniex hacked too.
Do you think this hacking problems will happen again next years ? if yes we must warn the exchanger dev's to make us comfy while we leave our money inside.
I am not big trader in the big market, but loosing money by hacked is hurt than you feel.
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I’m really surprised to see that some exchanges are showing up more than twice on the list 😣🤥. So they get hacked and they never bother to check on how it all happened and also fixing their website and increasing their security. This is why anyone shouldn’t store their coins on exchanges,, they are a big risk. Really bad.
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