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Jan 14, 2019

$16.0M
Lost
$16.0M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$16.0M
Unrecovered0% recovered

On January 14, 2019, Cryptopia's hot wallet private keys were compromised, enabling theft of approximately 10 percent of platform holdings in ERC-20 tokens across 17,000 customer accounts.

Target
CEX
Classification
Key Compromise
Technique
Hot Wallet Key Compromised
Attribution
Unknown
Chains
Ethereum

Event timeline

  1. Jan 14, 2019
    Exploit executed — $16.0M drained via hot wallet key compromised
  2. Attributed to Unknown
  3. Recovery status Unrecovered 0%

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