More than USD 1.5 bln has been stolen from exchanges. Here’s a recap

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The history of hacker attacks in one picture

 
June 2011 Mt. Gox  (8 750 000)

September 2012 Bitfloor (250 000)

February 2014 Mt.Gox (487 400 000)

July 2014  Poloniex (60 000)

January 2015 Bitstamp (5 000 000)

August 2016 Bitfinex (72 000 000)

July 2017 Bithumb (31 800)

December 2017 NiceHash (60 000 000)

December 2017 Yobit (15 200 000)

January 2018 Coincheck (500 000 000)

February 2018 BitGrail (170 000 000)

June 2018 Bithumb (31 000 000)

June 2018 Coinrail (37 000 000)

July 2018 Bancor (23 000 000)

September 2018 Zaif (60 000 000)

January 2019 Cryptopia ? (the company declared that the losses were “significant”)

 

Total: more than 1 469 660 000 dollars

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Note. All numbers are in dollars at the rate of cryptocurrency for the day of the hacker attack.

In Blockchain we trust!

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[dothebeats]

I don't think that cryptocurrency and blockchain is to blame for these hacks, as surely it is the platforms that have the problem in the first place, as they are the ones being breached and not blockchain or cryptocurrencies' code. More hacks would arise in the future if exchanges and platforms don't keep their systems in check and secure. Also, the notion that cryptocurrencies per se are not secure due to hacks is plainly wrong. Exchanges and services have their own code for their platforms which is obviously different from blockchain and cryptocurrencies.

[netto7]

DEX can solve this problem?

[creeps]

Blockchain is all good, but some exchanges are really not good in terms of security, and a lot of professional hacker are in this market so I think there will be more like this if there is no strong regulation. We should learn from now on, look at this timeline and you will see that even a big exchange is not that safe, so better to be more secured and don’t put too much money on exchanges.

[Mat Lion]

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Personally i feel exchanges need to be regulated with KYC and AML compliance. I hope they find these criminals to get back the stolen funds.


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[Indamuck]

Sounds like a lot but how much money are banks and wall street stealing from the common people? Banks are making billions off overdraft fees alone.  Throw in a good amount of insider trading and fraud from Wall STreet and crypto thefts pale in comparison.  P.S. I think most of these crypto hacks are inside jobs and not really from hackers.

[Upgrade00]

All of these hacks are synonymous with centralized exchanges and not a direct breach of the bitcoin network, which has only been flawed once in history. The flaw was quickly corrected and the generated coins reversed.

The security of your assets lies with the holder, avoid exchanges, except during active trades. Do not use an exchange wallet to store funds.

[Dreamchaser21]

Sounds like a lot but how much money are banks and wall street stealing from the common people? Banks are making billions off overdraft fees alone.  Throw in a good amount of insider trading and fraud from Wall STreet and crypto thefts pale in comparison.  P.S. I think most of these crypto hacks are inside jobs and not really from hackers.

Banks are the greatest scammer of all time, but this kind of situation should not be tolerated in cryptoworld no matter the what value of this. Yes, its possible that its an inside job and if this continue until the next generation, for sure cryptomarket will just become more like banks.

[kolesozw]

I lost “significant” for me amount of the last Cryptopia hack. I don't know how can somebody hack something more than the hot wallets without internal help. So those investigation always need to look for inner man first, but unfortunately most of the time police is not competent enough to do this job.

Let;s hope for some positive resolution of the Cryptopia case...

[tomahawk9]

Interesting to see how even with those numbers, centralized exchanges still rule the market while DEXs (decentralized exchanges) are yet to reach mainstream status. You would think that by now DEX would be at least competing head-to-head with the big exchanges but only a minority of the crypto users actually use DEX, I guess the low liquidity is an issue, but that should be the price to pay for having to trade in a decentralized exchange.

[Crypdon]

Cryptopia needs to be resolved, it is a proper exchange with a new zealand license. They should store enough in cold storage to cover any losses via hacks, clearly they failed and now rely on other exchanges like binance to freeze them

[Findingnemo]

DEX can solve this problem?

Yes it can be the best solution for the exchange hacks since in DEXs people are in control of their exchange's wallet so they are responsible for whatever happen with their funds because they are going to have their private keys.

[kolesozw]

DEX can solve this problem?

Yes it can be the best solution for the exchange hacks since in DEXs people are in control of their exchange's wallet so they are responsible for whatever happen with their funds because they are going to have their private keys.

This is not always correct.
Even for DEX you need to deposit your tokens with their smart-contract and if somebody find an error there, you are screwed like in every other exchange. But I'm curious about the new EOS DEX which is coming in next month. Maybe they will offer something new as a solution.

[millgates]

Okay then that is wrong rate, you should rate it based on the time when each cases happen. By the way bitcoin or blockchain can't be blame for this security breaches. The one who should be blamed is the hackers, hackers can hack bank as well so cybercrime should be stopped by the law enforcement. I hope cryptopia team could solve this problem immediately.

[kenzawak]

The funds stolen on Cryptopia seem to have been found and frozen on Binance.

[ramesh770]

More than 1.5 billion has been stolen from exchanges, PLAAK has a solution to store your crypto assets on the PLAAK Hardwallet Card. Keep your digital assets safe and be your own bank.

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Personally i feel exchanges need to be regulated with KYC and AML compliance. I hope they find these criminals to get back the stolen funds.


https://www.plaak.com/

Even KYC and AML can be faked by the hackers, because when they can hack the exchange what is the big deal in faking the documents and create a new account in exchanges and then hack it. So in real their is no big security which cannot be defended. It will take time to hack the exchange but it can be done. That is why it is not good to keep your coins in exchange if you are not trading daily. Even then you are insecure in any way.

[horrifiedx1]

Okay then that is wrong rate, you should rate it based on the time when each cases happen. By the way bitcoin or blockchain can't be blame for this security breaches. The one who should be blamed is the hackers, hackers can hack bank as well so cybercrime should be stopped by the law enforcement. I hope cryptopia team could solve this problem immediately.

they always look for loopholes to enter and seize everything that can be taken. although with a high level of security, they seemed reluctant to give up on finding their way. therefore do not put assets on one exchange, because the risk will be greater, spread into several exchanges of our assets to reduce risk

[Naida_BR]

It is very sad to see so many popular exchanges in this list.
These hacks also made a negative impact on the market cap of the cryptocurrency market and made people more cautious and frightened of investing money in this market. The best way to save your funds is not hodling them in the exchanges but what is the best solution when you are trading? You need to keep them there so as to act in time. This is one of the reasons that I don't trade and I try to make long-term decisions.

[Harlot]

That is why we need to push for a better regulation when it comes to the whole cryptocurrency industry. I know a lot of people here still don't want to connect the industry to the government but it is the only way to move forward, these crypto exchange companies cannot protect our person security on their own and the government has their right to protect their own citizen's well being. If you want for mass adoption to happen without this scams continuing we need to support the government to improve the industry not protest against them interfering.

[chenille]

That is why we need to push for a better regulation when it comes to the whole cryptocurrency industry. I know a lot of people here still don't want to connect the industry to the government but it is the only way to move forward, these crypto exchange companies cannot protect our person security on their own and the government has their right to protect their own citizen's well being. If you want for mass adoption to happen without this scams continuing we need to support the government to improve the industry not protest against them interfering.

I don't see an advantage in this, if funds are stolen they are lost anyways. Regulation can't get back hacked funds and hackers will always find a way to trick exchanges and getting them hacked. It's just a normal security issue everyone should be well aware of. Also governments get hacked.
Best solution is to store as little funds as possible on an exchange wallet and store coins offline in a safer wallet. The high number of hacks to famous exchanges has shown that exchanges are not suitable for storing funds.

[eminemcookie]

I wonder how many btc total have been hacked? That would also be interesting. the slightly less than 500m mt. gox is still by far the most significant because it was so many more btc than the biggest dollar amount hack that was in early 2018.

[netto7]

DEX can solve this problem?

Yes it can be the best solution for the exchange hacks since in DEXs people are in control of their exchange's wallet so they are responsible for whatever happen with their funds because they are going to have their private keys.

This is not always correct.
Even for DEX you need to deposit your tokens with their smart-contract and if somebody find an error there, you are screwed like in every other exchange. But I'm curious about the new EOS DEX which is coming in next month. Maybe they will offer something new as a solution.

what feature of EOS DEX is better than other DEX?

[nur rochid]

That is why we need to push for a better regulation when it comes to the whole cryptocurrency industry. I know a lot of people here still don't want to connect the industry to the government but it is the only way to move forward, these crypto exchange companies cannot protect our person security on their own and the government has their right to protect their own citizen's well being. If you want for mass adoption to happen without this scams continuing we need to support the government to improve the industry not protest against them interfering.

I don't see an advantage in this, if funds are stolen they are lost anyways. Regulation can't get back hacked funds and hackers will always find a way to trick exchanges and getting them hacked. It's just a normal security issue everyone should be well aware of. Also governments get hacked.
Best solution is to store as little funds as possible on an exchange wallet and store coins offline in a safer wallet. The high number of hacks to famous exchanges has shown that exchanges are not suitable for storing funds.

but with the regulation of the government will increase the prestige of the cryptocurrency and that makes a positive value. hackers are always looking for weaknesses, of course we must anticipate it, and I agree with your opinion to save it on the offline wallet

[vv181]

That is why we need to push for a better regulation when it comes to the whole cryptocurrency industry. I know a lot of people here still don't want to connect the industry to the government but it is the only way to move forward, these crypto exchange companies cannot protect our person security on their own and the government has their right to protect their own citizen's well being. If you want for mass adoption to happen without this scams continuing we need to support the government to improve the industry not protest against them interfering.

I don't see an advantage in this, if funds are stolen they are lost anyways. Regulation can't get back hacked funds and hackers will always find a way to trick exchanges and getting them hacked. It's just a normal security issue everyone should be well aware of. Also governments get hacked.
Best solution is to store as little funds as possible on an exchange wallet and store coins offline in a safer wallet. The high number of hacks to famous exchanges has shown that exchanges are not suitable for storing funds.

but with the regulation of the government will increase the prestige of the cryptocurrency and that makes a positive value. hackers are always looking for weaknesses, of course we must anticipate it, and I agree with your opinion to save it on the offline wallet

I believe it could be easily prevented without regulation, it is just simply basic education about cryptocurrency technologies, we must learn to protect ourself  to not get scammed or hacked by using a recommended ways to store cryptocurrencies. At the end of the days, the underlying technologies of cryptocurrencies are yet still unhackable, the problem is human error that makes their funds hacked.

[Vishnu.Reang]

More than 90% of the exchange hacks turned out to be inside jobs. However, there is one noticeable exception - Mt Gox. The Gox funds were stolen by Russian gangsters led by Alexander Vinnik (according to the FBI).

[BLAST2MARS]

I really wish that the latest hack in Cryptopia is more than enough to tell people not to store their altcoins in exchanges. Even Binance is an exception to that, I would still put it in a hardware wallet if I have a lot of bitcoins.  Don't be lazy people and do your own responsibility.

[virasog]

More than 1.5 billion has been stolen from exchanges, PLAAK has a solution to store your crypto assets on the PLAAK Hardwallet Card. Keep your digital assets safe and be your own bank.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BsvaRFhnwnv/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&igshid=l5rwytv5b65u …

Personally i feel exchanges need to be regulated with KYC and AML compliance. I hope they find these criminals to get back the stolen funds.


https://www.plaak.com/

Even KYC and AML can be faked by the hackers, because when they can hack the exchange what is the big deal in faking the documents and create a new account in exchanges and then hack it. So in real their is no big security which cannot be defended. It will take time to hack the exchange but it can be done. That is why it is not good to keep your coins in exchange if you are not trading daily. Even then you are insecure in any way.

Although hackers are very much active these days, yet we cannot just say that our funds in exchanges are not save because hacker have many techniques to hijack the exchanges system. It is also the responsibility of the exchanges to spend some good amount of funds to secure their system from hackers.

[figmentofmyass]

Interesting to see how even with those numbers, centralized exchanges still rule the market while DEXs (decentralized exchanges) are yet to reach mainstream status. You would think that by now DEX would be at least competing head-to-head with the big exchanges but only a minority of the crypto users actually use DEX, I guess the low liquidity is an issue, but that should be the price to pay for having to trade in a decentralized exchange.

while DEX services have improved from the earliest iterations like etherdelta, they're still not nearly as reliable for real-time trading and especially algo trading. bots/algos are employed by many, many spot market traders whether to enter/exit positions over time, make markets, arbitrage the market, scalp, etc. this doesn't easily translate to decentralized exchanges at all. it requires a boatload of new coding logic and i assume employing algos on DEX is just way less dependable since even manual trading results in somewhat regular errors. lack of liquidity would compound these problems. this is a big part of the reason why all the liquidity is still on centralized exchanges.

[Pain to go mad]

Cryptocurrency trading platforms have been hacked, and it's not the cryptocurrency's fault, as shown in the table above. I didn't see the ZB. I kept using it. It's stable as a rock.

[eaLiTy]

More than 1.5 billion has been stolen from exchanges, PLAAK has a solution to store your crypto assets on the PLAAK Hardwallet Card. Keep your digital assets safe and be your own bank.

Personally i feel exchanges need to be regulated with KYC and AML compliance. I hope they find these criminals to get back the stolen funds.

The hackers are not logging with an user ID and hacking the entire coins, do you think that if these exchanges becomes strict you can overcome these hacks  " after hacking they will submit their identification documentation because of the strict procedures"  .
The exchanges must the made liable for the lost coins and there must be strict regulations to run an exchange, other than that there is no other way, never deposit any coins in any exchanges if you are not planning to trade and never use those wallets as a mode of storage, if you can take care of that then your coins will be safe.

[atcsecure]

Interesting to see how even with those numbers, centralized exchanges still rule the market while DEXs (decentralized exchanges) are yet to reach mainstream status. You would think that by now DEX would be at least competing head-to-head with the big exchanges but only a minority of the crypto users actually use DEX, I guess the low liquidity is an issue, but that should be the price to pay for having to trade in a decentralized exchange.

while DEX services have improved from the earliest iterations like etherdelta, they're still not nearly as reliable for real-time trading and especially algo trading. bots/algos are employed by many, many spot market traders whether to enter/exit positions over time, make markets, arbitrage the market, scalp, etc. this doesn't easily translate to decentralized exchanges at all. it requires a boatload of new coding logic and i assume employing algos on DEX is just way less dependable since even manual trading results in somewhat regular errors. lack of liquidity would compound these problems. this is a big part of the reason why all the liquidity is still on centralized exchanges.

Blocknets DEX was designed from the ground up to have a bot-friendly API and already has bots written and deployed.  API specs are here https://api.blocknet.co/#xbridge-api and a simple-bot is available in my github @ https://github.com/atcsecure/dxbottools.  

Blocknets DEX has handled over 10k trades in the last 4 weeks alone (since launching its beta program), and it is 100% decentralized.

Checkout https://blockdx.co/charts

[Indrawan77]

I really wish that the latest hack in Cryptopia is more than enough to tell people not to store their altcoins in exchanges. Even Binance is an exception to that, I would still put it in a hardware wallet if I have a lot of bitcoins.  Don't be lazy people and do your own responsibility.

Yeah it should alarm the people to never make exchanges as their wallet but the most important thing is the exchanges security need to be upgraded, there are already a lot of cases but I still not see a serious solution from the exchanges, I think security should be the priority for the exchanges

[Wilhelm]

Where is BTCe ?

[Supercrypt]

Hackers will always find a way to hack things. That is what they do and that's what their work is. They are not bunch of young people trying to get some money, these are professional teams of hackers trying all they can think of and if you somehow find a way to stop them from doing the usual stuff than they will try to find new ways to hack you. We are talking about 1.5 billion and more worth of money that has been hacked, do you think 1.5 billion dollars is not a sector of its own.

Crypto hacking has been profiting hackers 150 million dollars a year (considering 1.5 billion dollar value and 10 year period) which means over 10 million dollars a month, that is not of course to one person but that is not even for a team, its a sector, an industry of its own. You can try whatever you want but in the end they will find a way to hack you. You can just make it more difficult, that is it.

[figmentofmyass]

Where is BTCe ?

good catch, although now that i think about it, maybe they don't belong on the list.

the other incidents were hacks where exchange wallets were compromised and coins stolen. even though the feds had control of BTC-E's servers, they were never able to compromise any coins. that's why BTC-E were able to immediately refund ~60% or more of customer funds. people lost money because mayzus financial froze all their bank and e-wallet accounts (and probably sent the $$$ to the US govt).

that experience actually showed me how powerful encrypted crypto wallets are. the feds were sitting on those servers for 7+ months before they dropped the indictment but they couldn't steal a cent of customer crypto!

[Kakmakr]

Ok, so what have we just proven with this info? Answer : Bitcoin exchanges <centralized services> are the point of failure for Bitcoin users, who wants to put their trust into these services.

It would be interesting to see how much money in total have been stored safely on exchanges and also on the Blockchain for the same time and how much money are stolen daily from people's Bank accounts as a comparison. <Example : In March 2003, former President, Saddam Hussein 'authorised' his son to take $1 billion (then £572 million) from the Central Bank of Iraq.> 

How safe are your money in Banks, when your government is corrupt? 

[green_nelson]

Why so much noise about it all? In the world there are robberies every day. Yes, this happens, you can not completely protect the system from this, especially when everything happens on the Internet. I'm sure that such cases will occur in the future too. You just need to take this into account, and always be responsible with this.

[omonuyak]

Are we saying blockchain technology is not safe?  The level of hacking and scamming is at the alarming rate and the one op listed are those one that are huge and we'll knowing because there are many hacking and scamming that has not been reported.

[biskitop]

some say that the exchange is still vulnerable to theft. but after a lot of theft happened, I also thought that this was a conspiracy, namely whales that took a lot to dump and to the public it was said to be theft. What is your opinion?

[el kaka22]

In Blockchain we trust!

Blockchain and exchange hacking has nothing to do with each other.

Blockchain is incredibly safe and its almost impossible to hack a wallet (still technically doable but quite challenging) but on the other hand exchanges do not keep all of their money in a safe secure place, which means its hard to hack an exchanges cold wallet (why blockchain is still secure) whereas easy to hack the hot wallet because you do not keep the cash lying around everywhere if you want it to be secure but you have to have some coins ready to send to customers on the hot wallet.

When people hack the exchanges they do not hack their wallet, they hack the control of their wallet, that way instead of forcing the money out of their wallet they are basically taking control of it hence making it easy to steal stuff.

[bitbunnny]

some say that the exchange is still vulnerable to theft. but after a lot of theft happened, I also thought that this was a conspiracy, namely whales that took a lot to dump and to the public it was said to be theft. What is your opinion?

This is just another conspiracy theory that has nothing to do with reality. Sometimes I think that whales been given some superpowers.
Exchanges are vulnerable and we are all aware of that. They are perfect target for hackers and there is no conspiracy behind it. It's true that exchanges should do much more on security to protect the funds of their users. And please be aware that hacking exchanges has absolutely nothing to do with blockchain which is a technology. So maybe you should get some information first before setting up theories.

[aoluain]

I havent been affected by any of these hacks because i dont keep any
significant amounts of anything on exchanges although i do have the
dregs of some shitcoins.

We should be mindfull of putting too much trust in exchanges to create
enough security for our coins and tokens.

[exstasie]

Blockchain and exchange hacking has nothing to do with each other.

Blockchain is incredibly safe and its almost impossible to hack a wallet (still technically doable but quite challenging)

One note on this. Established public-private key cryptography which secures cryptographic outputs/addresses (like ECC in Bitcoin) is incredibly safe, at least until quantum computers start brute forcing them.

Blockchains are not necessarily so safe though. Many proof-of-work blockchains have been 51% attacked and users have lost lots of money as a result. It just happened to Ethereum Classic recently: https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-classic-51-attack-the-reality-of-proof-of-work

[upsidedown75]

There is a huge difference between "blockchain" as a whole and blockchain as in your wallet. There is a huge difference between attacking a whole blockchain with a 51% attack and trying to brute force your way into a wallet. You can't fathom to think how much incredibly challenging a wallet hacking needs to be and its definitely impossible to do. That is why we have seen many more 51% attacks but no wallet hacks at all since its really not worth the time and effort put into it.

The required amount of power that needs to hack a wallet itself is bigger then need to hack a website which could yield quicker and better results. So, do not mix up hacking a wallet and taking someones money with hacking a whole blockchain with 51% attack and taking control of it somehow.

[yusupjatigumilar]

It was a very worrying thing when bitcoin and other crypto currencies were above the sky then fell to the ground when it happened because since then many people were selling large amounts of assets they had because trust in the exchange was lost due to the hacking incident, then did the perpetrators who is known from the attack?

[pinoyden]

I havent been affected by any of these hacks because i dont keep any
significant amounts of anything on exchanges although i do have the
dregs of some shitcoins.

We should be mindfull of putting too much trust in exchanges to create
enough security for our coins and tokens.

Same here . i never experience to get hack because i dont leave my coins on exchange or even on online wallet but im not saying that all users will follow it  .  its bad because if no one will deposit their coins online the value of crypto can also degrade more and more  . keeping coins online is also good if you are an active trader or investor because that saves time to cash in  .