Leaderboard
50All-time rank
LG
Liquid Global
Aug 19, 2021
$91.3M
Lost
$91.3M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$91.3M
Unrecovered0% recovered
On August 19, 2021, Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid Global's warm wallets were compromised, resulting in the theft of approximately $91-97 million in various cryptocurrencies including BTC, ETH, TRX, and XRP. The attack leveraged data from a prior November 2020 breach to compromise the MPC wallet system.
- Target
- CEX
- Classification
- Key Compromise
- Technique
- Hot Wallet Key Compromised
- Attribution
- North Korea
- Chains
Ethereum
Event timeline
- Aug 19, 2021Exploit executed — $91.3M drained via hot wallet key compromised
- Attributed to North Korea
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%