Leaderboard
102All-time rank
Bithumb
Jun 21, 2018
$31.0M
Lost
$31.0M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$31.0M
Unrecovered0% recovered
On June 19-20, 2018, attackers compromised Bithumb's hot wallet and stole approximately 35,000 ETH and various other tokens worth ~$31M at the time. The attacker's method exploited infrastructure vulnerabilities to gain access to the exchange's online wallet system.
Bithumb attributed the attack to Lazarus, the North Korea-linked hacker group.
- Target
- CEX
- Classification
- Frontend & Infrastructure
- Technique
- Key Leaked via Infrastructure
- Attribution
- Unknown
- Chains
Ethereum
Event timeline
- Jun 21, 2018Exploit executed — $31.0M drained via key leaked via infrastructure
- Attributed to Unknown
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%