Leaderboard
19All-time rank
Gate
Apr 21, 2018
$235M
Lost
$235M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$235M
Unrecovered0% recovered
io lost ~$230M on April 21, 2018 when North Korean hackers compromised exchange private keys. 8K BTC, ~219K ETH, ~100M DOGE and other tokens.
Gate concealed the breach until ZachXBT revealed it in 2024.
- Target
- CEX
- Classification
- Key Compromise
- Technique
- Private Key Compromised
- Attribution
- Unknown
- Chains
Event timeline
- Apr 21, 2018Exploit executed — $235M drained via private key compromised
- Attributed to Unknown
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%