Leaderboard
245All-time rank
HTX
Sep 25, 2023
$8.0M
Lost
$8.0M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$8.0M
Unrecovered0% recovered
On September 25, 2023, HTX's hot wallet was drained of 5,000 ETH (~$8 million). The attacker gained unauthorized access to internal wallet infrastructure via private key compromise; the attacker returned all funds on October 7, 2023, claiming a 250 ETH white-hat bounty.
- Target
- CEX
- Classification
- Key Compromise
- Technique
- Hot Wallet Key Compromised
- Attribution
- North Korea
- Chains
Ethereum
Event timeline
- Sep 25, 2023Exploit executed — $8.0M drained via hot wallet key compromised
- Attributed to North Korea
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%