Leaderboard
527All-time rank
B
BTER
Feb 17, 2015
$1.8M
Lost
$1.8M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$1.8M
Unrecovered0% recovered
BTER's cold wallet storage system was breached, resulting in the theft of 7,170 BTC. The fact that offline cold storage was compromised suggested a possible insider threat, though the full mechanism was never disclosed.
The exchange suspended operations immediately.
- Target
- CEX
- Classification
- Key Compromise
- Technique
- Private Key Compromised
- Attribution
- Unknown
- Chains
Bitcoin
Event timeline
- Feb 17, 2015Exploit executed — $1.8M drained via private key compromised
- Attributed to Unknown
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%