Leaderboard
311All-time rank
Bitstamp
Jan 5, 2015
$5.2M
Lost
$5.2M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$5.2M
Unrecovered0% recovered
Six Bitstamp employees were targeted in a sophisticated weeks-long phishing campaign starting in November 2014. The attacker sent social engineering emails to the CTO and system administrator, culminating in malware installation that gave the attacker access to the exchange's hot wallet infrastructure.
- Target
- CEX
- Classification
- Social Engineering
- Technique
- Phishing
- Attribution
- Unknown
- Chains
Bitcoin
Event timeline
- Jan 5, 2015Exploit executed — $5.2M drained via phishing
- Attributed to Unknown
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%
