Leaderboard
915All-time rank
B
Bitfloor
Sep 5, 2012
$250K
Lost
$250K
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$250K
Unrecovered0% recovered
Bitfloor's servers were breached and hackers accessed an unencrypted backup of Bitcoin wallet keys. The founder, Roman Shtylman, had failed to encrypt the digital wallet containing encryption keys during a system upgrade, leaving the backup in unencrypted form on disk.
- Target
- CEX
- Classification
- Frontend & Infrastructure
- Technique
- Key Stored Publicly
- Attribution
- Unknown
- Chains
Bitcoin
Event timeline
- Sep 5, 2012Exploit executed — $250K drained via key stored publicly
- Attributed to Unknown
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%