Leaderboard
214All-time rank
CP
CoinTiger (PTT)
Aug 17, 2019
$9.2M
Lost
$9.2M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$9.2M
Unrecovered0% recovered
CoinTiger's cold wallet was breached on July 1, 2019, but the theft was only announced on August 17, 47 days later. 2M), which they distributed across markets (120M PTT entered trading, causing the price to crash nearly 100%) while 280M were frozen by the Proton Chain project.
CoinTiger's lack of multi-signature security on cold storage enabled the compromise.
- Target
- CEX
- Classification
- Frontend & Infrastructure
- Technique
- Key Leaked via Infrastructure
- Attribution
- Unknown
- Chains
Ethereum
Event timeline
- Aug 17, 2019Exploit executed — $9.2M drained via key leaked via infrastructure
- Attributed to Unknown
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%