Hacked Exchanges since 2011

[VB1001]

- List of Hacked Exchanges, since 2011:

I would like to share this list of hacked exchanges. After reviewing the data, please consider how and where you are storing your Bitcoins. Several types of scams, including theft or loss of BTC at the individual level, are frequently reported in different news sources.

I prefer to focus on the hacking of exchanges, which impacts us all, but given the significance of some Bitcoin thefts outside of these platforms, I will include the most important ones. If anyone wishes to share their personal experience with any of these unfortunate situations, please feel free to do so.

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

• This is a list of exchanges hacked between 2011 and 2018. I hope I won't have to update it this year.
• 2019 was worse than the previous year.

In 2020, I updated some data and revamped the presentation of exchange incidents. I now have more references obtained from several sources, and once cross-referenced with my own, they provide a more comprehensive list of exchanges that have suffered some type of attack. Therefore, the presentation is structured annually to provide a more specific view of each year.

The sources are primarily online portals and social networks that alert about hacked exchanges. Once verified, the incident is then included in the corresponding annual list.

"Not your keys, Not your Bitcoin"

2011

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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/		

2021

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Year Month Exchange		  	Amount/$		 Hacked	   Source:					

2021 Feb.  Cryptopia                     45,000                     BTC    coindesk.com/policy/2021/02/20/cryptopia-exchange-currently-in-liquidation-gets-hacked-again-report
2021 Apr.  Hotbit                     (attempt)                  denied    hedgewithcrypto.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/
2021 May   LCX                             6.8M              Hot wallet    cointelegraph.com/news/lcx-loses-6-8m-in-a-hot-wallet-compromise-over-ethereum-blockchain
2021 Aug.  Liquid                           97M                Phishing    hedgewithcrypto.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/
2021 Dec.  BitMart                         196M               (ETH/BSC)    crystalintelligence.com/investigations/the-10-biggest-crypto-hacks-in-history/

Please share your experience if you have been affected by any of these unfortunate situations: theft, scam, or loss. Your input could be very helpful to the community.

[VB1001]

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

All the exchanges we have in the thread that have been hacked.

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Exchange

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

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
- Clear browser cache.
- Everything connected by cable.
- 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.

2022 >

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2022 Jan.  Crypto.com                     33.7M                Accounts    halborn.com/blog/post/explained-the-crypto-com-hack-january-2022
2022 Jan.  LCX                               8M                  Hacked    lcx.com/lcx-hack-update/
2022 Oct.  Binance (BSC)                   570M             Smart Chain    binance.com/en/square/post/18912527332874
2022 Nov.  FTX                             477M                  Hacked    theblock.co/post/196941/the-biggest-crypto-hacks-of-2022
2022 Nov.  Deribit                          28M              Hot wallet    binance.com/it/square/post/24475

2023 >

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2023 Apr.  GDAC                             13M              Hot wallet    decrypt.co/125834/hackers-rob-south-korean-exchange-13m-bitcoin-ethereum-other-assets
2023 Jun.  Atomic Wallet                   100M             5,500 users    ccn.com/education/crypto-hacks-2023-full-list-of-scams-and-exploits-as-millions-go-missing/
2023 Sep.  CoinEx                           70M             Private key    ccn.com/education/crypto-hacks-2023-full-list-of-scams-and-exploits-as-millions-go-missing/
2023 Nov.  Poloniex                        120M              Hot wallet    theblock.co/post/268831/the-10-largest-crypto-hacks-and-exploits-of-2023
2023 Nov.  HTX (Huobi)                      30M              Hot wallet    investing.com/news/cryptocurrency-news/htx-suffers-30-million-theft-vows-to-enhance-security-93CH-3242829

2024

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2024 May.  DMM Bitcoin                     305M        4,502 BTC (keys)    investopedia.com/news/largest-cryptocurrency-hacks-so-far-year/
2024 Jun.  BtcTurk                          55M              Hot wallet    ccn.com/news/crypto/top-5-crypto-hacks-shook-industry-2024/
2024 Jul.  WazirX                          235M                Multisig    ccn.com/news/crypto/top-5-crypto-hacks-shook-industry-2024/
2024 Sep.  BingX                            43M              Hot wallet    theblock.co/post/331626/crypto-hacks-exploits-2024
2024 Sep.  Indodax                          22M              Hot wallet    thedefiant.io/news/cefi/indonesian-crypto-exchange-indodax-hacked-over-22-million-goes-offline

2025

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2025 Feb.  Bybit                          1.46B                400k ETH    ccn.com/education/crypto/crypto-hacks-exploits-full-list-scams-vulnerabilities/
2025 May   Coinbase                        400M             Data Breach    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/coinbase-cyber-attack-crytocurrency
2025 Jun.  Nobitex                          90M                    Hack    coindesk.com/business/2025/06/18/why-pro-israel-group-s-usd90m-crypto-hack-could-be-a-hammer-blow-for-iran-s-regime
2025 Jul.  BigONE                           27M                    Hack    coindesk.com/markets/2025/07/16/crypto-exchange-bigone-confirms-27m-hack-vows-full-user-compensation
2025 Jul.  CoinDCX                          44M                   Theft    theblock.co/post/364993/coindcx-employee-arrested-police-crypto-theft

[darasinmi4show]

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.

[Kang Bahar]

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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.

[Tytanowy Janusz]

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.

[aervin11]

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  What's the point LOL

[o_e_l_e_o]

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.

[Tytanowy Janusz]

Great profits, I wonder why you share that info  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

[justspare]

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.

[Tytanowy Janusz]

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".

[gentlemand]

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.

[vit05]

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/

[Biscutard]

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.

[Dondont]

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.

[gentlemand]

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.

[clickerz]

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.

[perla]

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.

[Majormax]

Code:

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..

[lenovop-70]

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.

[fiomcorka]

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.