Leaderboard
933All-time rank
ShapeShift
Apr 7, 2016
$230K
Lost
$230K
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$230K
Unrecovered0% recovered
Between March-April 2016, ShapeShift suffered three separate thefts totaling ~$230K. An employee stole $130K in mid-March, then after dismissal sold security credentials to external hackers who stole an additional $100K (154 BTC, 5,800 ETH, 1,900 LTC).
No customer funds were lost as ShapeShift used a non-custodial architecture.
- Target
- CEX
- Classification
- Key Compromise
- Technique
- Private Key Compromised
- Attribution
- Unknown
- Chains
Bitcoin
Event timeline
- Apr 7, 2016Exploit executed — $230K drained via private key compromised
- Attributed to Unknown
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%