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Picostocks
Feb 17, 2014
$4.4M
Lost
$4.4M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$4.4M
Unrecovered0% recovered
Picostocks lost 5,896 BTC from both hot and cold wallets. Because the offline cold storage was somehow accessed, the theft was suspected to be an inside job or the result of compromised key storage, suggesting an internal actor or breach of key management.
- Target
- CEX
- Classification
- Key Compromise
- Technique
- Private Key Compromised
- Attribution
- Unknown
- Chains
Bitcoin
Event timeline
- Feb 17, 2014Exploit executed — $4.4M drained via private key compromised
- Attributed to Unknown
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%