Leaderboard
89All-time rank
MB
Mercado Bitcoin
Nov 2, 2026
$40.0M
Lost
$40.0M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$40.0M
Unrecovered0% recovered
On November 2, 2026, attackers compromised a system at Mercado Bitcoin and transferred more than $40 million in crypto from exchange-associated wallets across various blockchains. The exchange contained the incident and temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals while investigating the transfers.
5 million USDT associated with the theft. Mercado Bitcoin stated that customers would not incur losses and that no customer data was exposed.
- Target
- CEX
- Classification
- Protocol Logic
- Technique
- Unknown
- Attribution
- Unknown
- Chains
BitcoinEthereumSolanaTRONPolygonArbitrumAvalancheBSCStellarXDC
Event timeline
- Nov 2, 2026Exploit executed — $40.0M drained via unknown
- Attributed to Unknown
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%