Leaderboard
103All-time rank
Tether
Nov 19, 2017
$31.0M
Lost
$31.0M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$31.0M
Unrecovered0% recovered
95M USDT was removed from Tether's Treasury wallet and sent to an unauthorized address. Tether blocked the tokens and marked them as non-redeemable, preventing their circulation.
Tether worked with the Omni Foundation to implement protocol upgrades allowing eventual token reclamation.
- Target
- DeFi
- Classification
- Key Compromise
- Technique
- Private Key Compromised
- Attribution
- Unknown
- Chains
Bitcoin
Event timeline
- Nov 19, 2017Exploit executed — $31.0M drained via private key compromised
- Attributed to Unknown
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%