Leaderboard
1078All-time rank
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Vertcoin
Dec 12, 2018
$100K
Lost
$100K
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$100K
Unrecovered0% recovered
Vertcoin suffered a 51% attack on December 10-12, 2018 when an attacker gained majority hashpower using the Nicehash rental service. The attacker executed 22 deep chain reorganizations, 15 of which included double-spend transactions with the largest reorg exceeding 300 blocks.
Estimated losses exceeded $100,000.
- Target
- Other
- Classification
- Market Manipulation
- Technique
- Risk Parameter Abuse
- Attribution
- Unknown
- Chains
Vertcoin
Event timeline
- Dec 12, 2018Exploit executed — $100K drained via risk parameter abuse
- Attributed to Unknown
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%