Hacked Exchanges since 2011

[VB1001]

Round-Up of Crypto Exchanges Hack So Far in 2019, How Can It Be Stopped?

Throughout the past six months, seven crypto exchanges have reportedly seen large-scale hacking attacks to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, with the most recent platform to suffer a security breach being GateHub.

GateHub 18,473 accounts affected.
As reported by Cointelegraph on June 6, the United Kingdom and Slovenia-based crypto exchange GateHub reported the loss of nearly $10 million worth of XRP.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/round-up-of-crypto-exchanges-hack-so-far-in-2019-how-can-it-be-stopped

In the Cointelegraph article there is this graph with some exchanges that are not in the thread list.

[FinalFury]

all i can say is that the attack on Mt.Gor exchange might be coming from the same person. this showcase the need for people to avoid abandoning their tokens on exchange. it is not advisable or favourable. get a wallet. whatever you earn from the exchange can be earn on the wallet.

Well, there are reports that most of the hacks are coming from the same groups of people sponsored by the governments of North Korea and Russia, but you know, these are just Western reports. All politics lead to fake news.

I don't even really consider all hacks are legit. I still believe Mt Gox and others were exit scams. But that's just me, I hate trusting people and when you see their faces...

I'm from the West and I've never heard of such claims. Not once. Most hacks seem to get blamed on an unknown hacker. What I'm saying is stop with the us vs them propaganda.

[Julunguul]

I was surprised by this list, I was worried that there would be no safe exchange to save crypto assets.
It should be a concern that security is important and users must get a guarantee. I like binance with their guarantee after the Hack case (SAFU).

Hopefully other exchangers will do the same thing with what Binance Exchange does by insuring their exchangers so that if something goes wrong, someone can be responsible for the funds of investors and traders.

So far only binance has that service, we can be sure not to trust too much and always keep your assets in a safer wallet and that is not an exchange.

Even binance has started hacking several weeks or months ago if I am not mistaken. But indeed saving assets too large on the exchange is quite risky.
Only saving the assets in the exchange isn't recommended but if we didn't do it, we also won't get any profit, right ?

[agatha90]

Lots of exchanges are hacked. The biggest exchanges like binance can be hacked. For exchange owners, it should be more secure by giving the best and the best antivirus. So that the assets of investors are not easily stolen.

[Last of the V8s]

https://twitter.com/BitrueOfficial/status/1144066875573166080

[mitchr4]

Lots of exchanges are hacked. The biggest exchanges like binance can be hacked. For exchange owners, it should be more secure by giving the best and the best antivirus. So that the assets of investors are not easily stolen.

That will not prevent hackers from doing that because these hackers keep getting smarter in doing the action. In addition to the exchange security guarding the assets of its users, we also do not always save assets on exchange accounts because they are prone to hacking.

[Oilacris]

https://twitter.com/BitrueOfficial/status/1144066875573166080

Oh another exchange been hacked.Im not familiar with Bittrue but basing into their tweet

"The hacker used what they learned from this breach to then access the Bitrue hot wallet and move 9.3 million XRP and 2.5 million ADA to different exchanges."

Basing on calculations its about $4M+ of lost funds.I do somehow expect for these exchange hacks specially
when bitcoins price or entire market is soaring high.

[Goodvalony]

i am yet to access My bitrue account after the news. although i have little money inside it. i doubt if i am affected but this is the second exchange i have an account with that got hacked. cryptopia left with my penny. just little.

[VB1001]

Exit Scam? Dublin-Based Exchange Bitsane Vanishes With Users’ Funds

Ireland-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitsane has apparently vanished, taking as many as 246,000 users’ crypto deposits with it. The news was reported by Forbes on June 27.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/exit-scam-dublin-based-exchange-bitsane-vanishes-with-users-funds

[Tungsten-1]

i am yet to access My bitrue account after the news. although i have little money inside it. i doubt if i am affected but this is the second exchange i have an account with that got hacked. cryptopia left with my penny. just little.

Well this is a pity. These exchanges should work on their security more than anything else. This is important to keep the trust of the users restored. It was a shock to see Binance getting hacked as well and that exchange being the leading exchange had been able to control the situation for the users but the rest of the exchange might not have enough funds to do that.

[VB1001]

Bitcoins Norway
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Norwegian crypto exchange wants to force users to sell their cryptocurrencies

The reason for this is that the exchange's platform provider Alphapoint allegedly has been subject to a hacker attack.

The Norwegian crypto exchange Bitcoins Norway announced on Monday night (CEST) that they stop all trading on their platform and that the users’ cryptocurrencies will be sold “as fast as it is practically possible”.

https://news.trijo.co/news/norwegian-crypto-exchange-wants-to-force-users-to-sell-their-cryptocurrencies/?lang=en

[VB1001]

Polish Crypto Exchange BitMarket Shuts Down Citing Liquidity Loss

Polish cryptocurrency exchange BitMarket announced its shutdown on its official website on July 8.

When trying to access the exchange through its website, users are instead greeted with the following text message in both English and Polish:

“Dear Users, We regret to inform you that due to the loss of liquidity, since 08/07/2019, Bitmarket.pl/net was forced to cease its operations. We will inform you about further steps.”

https://cointelegraph.com/news/polish-crypto-exchange-bitmarket-shuts-down-citing-liquidity-loss

[MinMan]

The way I see it, it seems that the regulated exchanges are more safe than the exchanges that are not regulated, or am I wrong? Because from the list we have here, I didn’t see any regulated exchange on the list. I don’t really know for sure, but mainly what I am seeing is exchanges that are not being regulated. Binance is not fully regulated, and it was hacked recently… Coinbase is being regulated and it is very safe and well secured. Even from the way the login works, I haven’t seen any other exchanges that works that way.

[jerry0]

What about binance and bittrex hacks?  Did any of them cause customers to lose coins or only binance and bittrex themselves?

[VB1001]

Japanese Crypto Exchange Bitpoint Suffers $32 Million Hack

Japanese crypto exchange Bitpoint has suspended all services after losing $32 million in a hack involving XRP, Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies.

In an official announcement on July 12, Bitpoint revealed that it had lost around 3.5 billion yen (~$32 million) — 2.5 billion yen (~$23 million) of which belonged to customers and 1 billion (~$9.2 million) to the exchange.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/japanese-crypto-exchange-bitpoint-suffers-32-million-hack

[joromz1226]

We are going to close the year. I would like to share this list of pirated exchanges. After viewing the data, consider how and where you store your Bitcoins.

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.

Remember:> "Not your keys, not your Bitcoin"

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  Exchange  		Year        	Amount / Month  	 Amount / Coin 			Founders			              	 
✔️ Bitcoin7    		2011 <      	50.000 $ October	  5.000 / BTC		
✔️ Mt.Gox      		2011 <       8.750.000 $ June	  	  2.000 / BTC           Jed McCaleb / Mark Karpeles
✔️ Bitcoinica  		2012 <         228.000 $ March	 	 43.550 / BTC	
✔️ Bitcoinica  		2012 <          87.000 $ May	 	 18.540 / BTC
✔️ Bitcoinica  		2012 <         300.000 $ July	 	 40.000 / BTC
✔️ Bitfloor    		2012 <         250.000 $ September 	 24.000 / BTC   	    Roman Shtylman        
✔️ PicoStocks  		2013 <       3.000.000 $ November	  6.000 / BTC	
✔️ Vircurex		2013 <         160.000 $ May	  	  1.450 / BTC
✔️ BTER        		2014 <       1.065.000 $ August                 / NXT
✔️ BitPay      		2014 <       1.800.000 $ December         5.000 / BTC
✔️ Bitcurex    		2014 <               ? $ March                  /
✔️ Cryptsy     		2014 <       9.500.000 $ July	 	 11.325 / BTC
✔️ Cryptorush  		2014 <         570.000 $ March		        /
✔️ KipCoin     		2014 <         690.000 $ October                /
✔️ MintPal     		2014 <       1.300.000 $ October                /
✔️ Mt.Gox      		2014 <     460.000.000 $ February	650.000 / BTC		Jed McCaleb / Mark Karpeles
✔️ Poloniex    		2014 <          64.000 $ March	     	     97 / BTC		   Tristan D'Agosta
✔️ LocalBitcoins 	2015 <		     ? $ January	     17 / BTC
✔️ 796Exchange 		2015 <         230.000 $ January	  1.000 / BTC	
✔️ BTER        		2015 <       1.750.000 $ February	  7.170 / BTC
✔️ Bitcurex    		2016 <       1.500.000 $ October          2.300 / BTC
✔️ Bitstamp    		2015 <       5.200.000 $ January	 19.000 / BTC	 	    Merlak brothers
✔️ Bitfinex    		2016 <      77.000.000 $ August	        119.700 / BTC		    Rafael Nicole
✔️ Gatecoin    		2016 <       2.140.000 $ May	            250 / BTC
✔️ ShapeShift  		2016 <         230.000 $ April	            469 / BTC	
✔️ Bithumb     		2017 <      30.000.000 $ February		/ Crypto		Kim De Shi
✔️ YouBit      		2017 <       5.300.000 $ April                  /
✔️ YouBit      		2017 <             17% $ December               /
✔️ Bancor      		2018 <      23.000.000 $ July		        /			Guy Benarzi
✔️ Coincheck   		2018 <     500.000.000 $ January		/ NEM		Koichiro Wada, Yusuke Otsuka
✔️ BitGrail    		2018 <     187.000.000 $ February		/ Nano		    Francesco Firano
✔️ Zaif        		2018 <      60.000.000 $ September              / 
✔️ Coinrail    		2018 <      40.000.000 $ June		        / Crypto		Lee Nuss
✔️ Cryptopia		2019 <		     ? $ January	      ? /
✔️ Liqui Crypto		2019 <		     ? $ January	      Closed
✔️ QuadrigaCX		2019 <		     ? $ January	      Closed			Owner disappeared...
✔️ Coinmama		2019 <			 February	450.000 / emails+passwords	
✔️ DragonEx		2019 <		       $ March		 Waiting for more info.
✔️ Coinbene		2019 <		       $ March		 Waiting for more info.	
✔️ Bithumb		2019 <		       $ March	      3.000.000 / EOS

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

I Never know that Coinbene has been hacked this year, because I'm one of traders in this platform. But suddenly wondered why I cannot enter into coinbene even my 2fa all of a sudden failed to enter the code always. That could be the reason why? But I noticed that etherdelta was not there in the list, As far as I know it was also hacked right?

[VB1001]

But I noticed that etherdelta was not there in the list, As far as I know it was also hacked right?

Sorry etherdelta is not in the list, in a previous publication there is an image where it is included.

This weekend to update the listings.

[gleisson05]

One more crypto exchange has joined the ranks of hacked: Japanese Exchange Bitpoint

[olamidey]

Lots of exchanges are hacked. The biggest exchanges like binance can be hacked. For exchange owners, it should be more secure by giving the best and the best antivirus. So that the assets of investors are not easily stolen.

Truthfully, hacks are becoming more rampant and more sophisticated than before. So many hackers are learning trades and exchanges seems to be the jackpot due to the large amount of transactions and funds on those platforms. Most surprising to me was the hack of Binance. Never expected it.

To safeguard your funds, never put funds on Exchange and never leave a trade on for too long. It's a safe way to have your funds untapped

[wywoc]

In the list above, I think there is only one leading trading platform that has never been hacked: Okex. So it seems to be a reliable exchange?