Leaderboard
60All-time rank
Bitfinex
Aug 2, 2016
$72.0M
Lost
$72.0M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$72.0M
Unrecovered0% recovered
Bitfinex suffered a security breach when an attacker compromised hot wallet private keys, stealing 119,756 bitcoins (~$72 million). The exchange halted trading and withdrawals while investigating.
- Target
- CEX
- Classification
- Key Compromise
- Technique
- Hot Wallet Key Compromised
- Attribution
- Unknown
- Chains
Bitcoin
Event timeline
- Aug 2, 2016Exploit executed — $72.0M drained via hot wallet key compromised
- Attributed to Unknown
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%