Crypto Theft Incidents Timeline, Kyle S Gibson - Draft 1 Feb. 26 2019

Crypto Theft Incidents Timeline, Draft 1 - @KyleSGibson List #

1

Date

6-13-2011

Amt Stolen ($)

500,000.00

Crypto Stolen

25,000 BTC

Type

Hack - Theft

Allinvain Bitcointalk Bitco intalk User Hack "the first person to suffer a major loss owing to a bitcoin hack...bitcoins were stolen from their wallet after hackers hackers compromised the Windows computer they were using."

Source 1:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=16457.0

Source 2:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 https://www.t heguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/18/history-of014/mar/18/history-of-bitcoin-hacks-alternat bitcoin-hacks-alternat

Source 3:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ti https://www.f orbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/06/ mworstall/2011/06/17/bitcoin-the-firs 17/bitcoin-the-first-500000-theft/#50c t-500000-theft/#50c

List #

2

Date

6-19-2011

Amt Stolen ($)

30,000.00

Crypto Stolen

2000 BTC

Type

Theft - Exit Scam

MT Gox Auditor Audi tor Theft "a security breach ... caused ... price of a bitcoin to fraudulently drop to one cent on [Mt Gox], after a hacker allegedly used credentials from a Mt. Gox auditor's compromised computer to transfer a large number of bitcoins illegally to himself."

Source 1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt https://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/Mt._Gox#Security_breach_and_i ._Gox#Security_breach_and_invalid_addresses_(2011) nvalid_addresses_(2011)

Source 2:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/01/02/japanese-newspaper-makes-bold-claimabout-mt-goxs-giant-2014-bitcoin-loss/

Source 3: 3:

https://www.ledger.fr/2019/02/18/hack-flasback-the-mt-gox-hack-the-most-iconic-exch https://www.ledger.fr/2019/ 02/18/hack-flasback-the-mt-gox-hack-the-most-iconic-exch

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3

Date

8-1-2011

Amt Stolen ($)

220,000.00

Crypto Stolen

17000

Type

Bitomart Exchange Wallet.dat File Is Deleted "lost access to their wallet.dat file and thus the exchange’s entire fund base..." were using AWS Elastic Cloud; whole server got deleted during upgrade. Sold debt to Mt. Gox in Aug 2011

Glitch - Funds Locked

Source 1:

https://siliconangle.com/2011/08/01/thirdhttps://siliconangl e.com/2011/08/01/third-largest-bitcoin-exchange-bi largest-bitcoin-exchange-bitomat-lost-the tomat-lost-the

Source 2:

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2017/09/17/ki https://davidgerard.co. uk/blockchain/2017/09/17/kim-nilsson-of-wiz m-nilsson-of-wizsec-how-the-bitc sec-how-the-bitc

Source 3:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache: https://webcache.googleuser content.com/search?q=cache:cfaUyfnNdSEJ: cfaUyfnNdSEJ:https:// https://

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List #

4

Date

8-8-2011

Amt Stolen ($)

2,000,000.00

Crypto Stolen

154,406 BTC

Type

Hack - Theft

MyBitcoin Exchange Hack "MyBitcoin built its reputation by providing a free, user-friendly service targeted at newbie Bitcoin buyers. It collected scores of users, including Bitcoin evangelist and host of The Bitcoin Show Bruce Wagner..." "

Source 1:

https://observer.com/2011/08/mybitcoin-spokesman-finally-comes-for https://observer.com/2011/08/mybitcoin-spokesm an-finally-comes-forward-what-did-yo ward-what-did-yo u-think-we-did-after-the-hack-we-got-shitfaced/

Source 2:

https://observer.com/2011/08/mybitcoin-disappear https://observer.com/ 2011/08/mybitcoin-disappeared-with-bitcoins/ ed-with-bitcoins/

Source 3:

https://www.ccn.com/newsflash-canadian-bitcoin-exchange-hacked-sayshttps://www.ccn.com/newsflash-canadi an-bitcoin-exchange-hacked-says-all-funds-areall-funds-aregone

List #

5

Date

10-5-2011

Amt Stolen ($)

50,000.00

Crypto Stolen

5000 BTC

Type

Hack Theft

Bitcoin7 Exchange Hack "...posted a message to its users that it had been subject to a hacking intrusion that compromised their wallets and their user database."

Source 1:

https://siliconangle.com/2011/10/07/bitcoin7-hacked-funds-recovery-requir https://siliconangle.com/2011/10/07/bitcoin7hacked-funds-recovery-requires-sensitivees-sensitivepersonal-information/

Source 2:

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-exchangehttps://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-exchange-thefts-forgotten/ thefts-forgotten/

List #

6

Date

3-2-2012

Amt Stolen ($)

228,000.00

Crypto Stolen

46,703 BTC

Type

Hack - Theft

Linode Webhost Cloud Server Hack The thief, it seems, was able to obtain customer support privileges which allowed him to find out which customers were holding Bitcoin wallets. The thief was then able to log in to the accounts through a weakness in the Linode manager—which customers use to configure their virtual machines—reboot the machines and change the root passwords.

Source 1:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/03/bitcoins-w https://arstechnica.com/information-tec hnology/2012/03/bitcoins-worth-228000-stolen-fr orth-228000-stolen-fr om-customers-of-hacked-webhost/

Source 2:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/thousandshttps://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/compu ting/networks/thousands-of-bitcoins-stolen-i of-bitcoins-stolen-inna-hack-on-linode

2

List #

7

Date

5-6-2012

Amt Stolen ($)

90,000.00

Crypto Stolen

18,548 BTC

Type

Hack - Theft

Bitcoinica Hot Wallet Hack "Today, we have discovered a suspicious Bitcoin transaction that doesn't seem to be initiated by any one of the company owners..." speculation has been that A. Vinnik was involved (same as Mt Gox, BTC-e)

Source 1:


Source 2:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/05/14/bitcoi https://nakedsecurity. sophos.com/2012/05/14/bitcoin-exchange-gets-attacked-and-l n-exchange-gets-attacked-and-lo o-

Source 3:

https://news.8btc.com/analyst-mt-gox-l https://news.8btc.c om/analyst-mt-gox-lost-100000-more-bitcoins ost-100000-more-bitcoins-apart-from-the-2-5-apart-from-the-2-5-bil bil--

List #

8

Date

7-2-2012

Amt Stolen ($) Crypto Stolen Type

150000

Bitcoin Savings and Trust Ponzi Scheme Run by "pirateat40"; was a "virtual hedge fund" promising high yield investments; closed without paying customers back

Theft - Exit Scam

Source 1:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.msg1004558#msg1004558

Source 2:

https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/27/3271637/bi https://www.t heverge.com/2012/8/27/3271637/bitcoin-savings-trusttcoin-savings-trust-pyramid-sche pyramid-sche--

List #

9

Date

9-4-2012

Amt Stolen ($)

240,000.00

Crypto Stolen

24000 BTC

Type

Hack - Theft

Bitfloor Exchange Hack "...the attacker gained accesses to an unencrypted backup of the wallet keys (the actual keys live in an encrypted area)."

Source 1:


Source 2:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/09/06/bitcoi https://nakedsecurity. sophos.com/2012/09/06/bitcoin-exchange-floored-in-vir n-exchange-floored-in-virtual-banktual-bank-

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List #

10

Date

11-16-2012


3,457 BTC Hack - Theft

2012 Trojan Wallet Hack "stupid as i am i allowed some hacker to somehow install a trojan horse on my pc where i stored some of my bitcoins. (around 2600), With keylogger he got all my passwords and, of course stole my local wallet file. The hacker sent the bitcoins to the address: 1Q3KFL7Z1BTpUboDaU6Qj3t9xCXWpzNntS"

Source 1:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=125641

Source 2:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic= https://bitcointal k.org/index.php?topic=83794.0;all#post_toc_39 83794.0;all#post_toc_39

List #

11

Date

1-11-2013


50,000,000.00 1666 Hack - Theft

Vircurex Exchange Hack "In 2014, the exchange reported it was near insolvency after losing large amounts of its reserve funds. According to the lawsuit, part of this loss came from “two purported hacks the exchange experienced in mid-2013.” Yet more of its reserve funds were depleted by large withdrawals by some of its customers."

Source 1:


Source 2:

https://www.coindesk.com/former-cus https://www.c oindesk.com/former-customers-sue-vircurex-ex tomers-sue-vircurex-exchange-over-frozen-c change-over-frozen-c

List #

12

Date

2-14-2013

Amt Stolen ($)

400,000.00

Crypto Stolen

18,787 BTC

Type

Theft - Exit Scam

BitMarket.eu Exit Scam "Bitmarket.eu used to be a Bitcoin exchange run by two Polish developers. The developers, Maciej Trebacz and Pawel Makulski operated the exchange platform for about two years before it became a victim of a hacking incident." ... "As Trębacz explained on a BitcoinTalk forum post, BitMarket wasn't to blame for this incident. He says he decided to set up a Bitcoin hedge fund... using the services of Bitcoinica...Unfortunately, Bitcoinica itself got hacked in May 2012, losing all of BitMarket's funds along the way…”

Source 1:


Source 2:

https://www.ccn.com/bitmarket-bi https://www.c cn.com/bitmarket-bitcoin-exchange-loses-bankingtcoin-exchange-loses-banking-connection-po connection-po

Source 3:

https://www.newsbtc.com/2016/10/28/bi https://www.n ewsbtc.com/2016/10/28/bitmarket-eu-hack-may-l tmarket-eu-hack-may-link-linkedin-dropbox ink-linkedin-dropbox

Source 4:

https://news.softpedia.com/news/dropbox-and-l https://news.softpedi a.com/news/dropbox-and-linkedin-hacker-most-l inkedin-hacker-most-likely-behindikely-behind-

4

List #

13

Date

3-10-2013

Amt Stolen ($)

58,000.00

Crypto Stolen

1,254 BTC

Type

Hack - Theft

BTCGuild Mining Pool Hack "The BTCGuild Bitcoin client upgrade of March 2013 was supposed to be a smooth process, but things turned out quite differently. During the blockchain re-indexing process, the mining pool paid out BTC for difficulty-1 shares. A total of sixteen individuals emptied the company hot wallet during this process..."

Source 1:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:O-KYgSyQ2w https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache: O-KYgSyQ2w4J:https://nullt 4J:https://nullt x.com/top-5-bitcoin-heists-of-2013/+&c x.com/top-5-bitcoinheists-of-2013/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct= d=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us clnk&gl=us

Source 2:


List #

14

Date

3-28-2013

Amt Stolen ($) Crypto Stolen

Type

2,150 Bitcoin Theft - Exit Scam

Bitcoin Rain Exit Scam "A suspected long-running con likened to the infamous Bitcoin Savings and Trust, Bitcoin Rain finally defaulted on March 28, 2013. Leandro César claimed there was a security breach on his exchange website Mercado Bitcoin.[35] As Bitcoin Rain's funds were stored there, investors in Bitcoin Rain as well as account holders on Mercado Bitcoin lost money. Some money was reportedly paid back, but the vast majority is still outstanding."

Source 1:


Source 2:


List #

15

Date

7-15-2013

Amt Stolen ($)

121,000.00

Crypto Stolen

1,300 BTC

Type Source 1:

Hack - Theft

"one of the most popular gambling platform of 2013, lost over 1,300 Bitcoin. One player asked to withdraw this balance, which had to be paid from the cold wallet. But site administrator Chris Moore did not remove the balance from the database. This allowed the player to spend the fake balance, which he eventually lost. Technically, there was no official loss, but the 1,300 Bitcoins remained stolen."


(#16) Date

8-27-2013

Crypto Stolen

6,000 BTC

Source 1:

Just Dice Incident

Bitfunder and WeExchange Hack


5

List #

17

Date

10-1-2013

Amt Stolen ($)

100,000.00

Crypto Stolen

149

Type

Source 1:

"With nothing more than a chat session and smooth talk, a crafty cybercriminal convinced an attendee at Rogers Data Centre to reboot the Canadian Bitcoins server in fail safe mode, bypassing all security measures."

Theft - Exit Scam https://www.virusbulletin.com/v https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2014/11/paper irusbulletin/2014/11/paper-well-escalated-qui -well-escalated-quickly-pennyckly-pennystealing-malware-multi-millionstealing-malware-multi-million-dollar-heists-quickdollar-heists-quick-overview-bitcoin-bonanzaoverview-bitcoin-bonanza-digital-era digital-era

List #

18

Date

10-23-2013

Amt Stolen ($)

1,300,000.00

Crypto Stolen

4,100 BTC

Type

Canada Bitcoins Social Engineering Theft

Hack - Theft

Input.io Wallet Hack "The alleged hacking happened on both October 23 and 26, with the service's operator, known only as "Tradefortress", saying hackers stole all 4100 Bitcoins held by the wallet service, or $1.3 million at the time of writing. The Bitcoins were stored on servers in the US and it wasn't until this week that he decided to notify customers."

Source 1:

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/australian-bitcoin-bank-hac https://www.smh.com.au/technology/aust ralian-bitcoin-bank-hacked-1m-stolen-201311 ked-1m-stolen-201311 08-hv2iv.html

Source 2:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/11/26/bitcoin-online-bank-robbery-becausehttps://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/11/26/bitcoi n-online-bank-robbery-because-that that s-where-the-money-is/

List #

19

Date

10-26-2013

Amt Stolen ($)

4,100,000.00

Crypto Stolen

9,640 BTC

Type

Theft - Exit Scam

GBL Exchange Exit Scam "Unfortunately for the GBL investors the exchange turned out to be a con and on October 26 the people behind the scheme absconded with all of the funds"... "Bitcoin reached an all-time high of more than $400 on Wednesday, just weeks after a multimillion-dollar exchange in China disappeared."

Source 1:

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2225793/softwar https://www.networkworld.com/ar ticle/2225793/software/chinese-bitcoin-exchange-v e/chinese-bitcoin-exchange-vani ani shes-along-with-bitcoins.html

Source 2:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-m https://www.t hedailybeast.com/the-missing-bitcoin-mi issing-bitcoin-millions llions

6

List #

20

Date

11-19-2013

Amt Stolen ($)

1,000,000.00

Crypto Stolen

1,295 BTC

Type

Hack - Theft

BIPS Payment Services Hack "On November 15th BIPS was the target of a massive DDoS attack, which is now believed to have been the initial preparation for a subsequent attack on November 17th ...Regrettably, despite several layers of protection, the attack caused vulnerability to the system, which has then enabled the attacker/s to gain access and compromise several wallets."

Source 1:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=i https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?PHP SESSID=i6qiklm2v9d898h3qhd1a5q0r3&topic 6qiklm2v9d898h3qhd1a5q0r3&topic=25 =25 2308.msg3645043#msg3645043

Source 2:


Source 3:

https://99bitcoins.com/danish-bitcoin-plat https://99bitcoins.c om/danish-bitcoin-platform-bips-hacked-1295-btc form-bips-hacked-1295-btc-stolen/ -stolen/

List #

21

Date

11-21-2013

Amt Stolen ($)

6,000,000.00

Crypto Stolen

5,400 BTC

Type

Theft - Exit Scam

Sheep Marketplace Exit Scam "Prosecutors in the Czech Republic have indicted Thomas Jiřikovský, the owner of the Sheep Marketplace, and his wife Eve Bartošová. Thomas Jiřikovský is responsible for the largest exit scam in the history of darknet markets."

Source 1:

https://news.bitcoin.com/darknet-market-operators-who-stolehttps://news.bitcoin.com/darknet-market -operators-who-stole-40-thousand-btc-face-pris 40-thousand-btc-face-pris on-time/

Source 2:

https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/04/21/sheep-marketplace-owner-indi https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/04/21/sheepmarketplace-owner-indicted-face-year cted-face-year s-prison/

List #

22

Date

11-29-2013

Amt Stolen ($)

6,000,000.00

Crypto Stolen

5,875 BTC

Type Source 1:

Picostocks Cold Wallet Hack "There is no sign of an intrusion into the systems. Both wallets were located on different computers. We suspect that these have been copied by people who had access to the system in the past and decrypted."

Hack - Theft https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1rrnua/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bi tcoin/comments/1rrnua/picostocks_hacked_even_cold_wall picostocks_hacked_even_cold_wall et_emptied/

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List #

23

Date

2-7-2014


Type

MT Gox Halts Trade Over Major Hack

300,000,000.00 "7 February 2014 — MtGox halted all BTC withdrawals from the exchange, 650,000 BTC

Hack - Theft

citing a transaction malleability bug in the core Bitcoin software. When withdrawals had still not resumed after 2 weeks, users began to suspect that MtGox may not be able to pay its customers. This lack of confidence resulted in the price dropping to below 20% of that on other exchanges. 24 February 2014 — MtGox suspended all trading, then went offline completely, returning a blank page. News outlets reported on a leaked “crisis strategy draft” plan, which declared MtGox’s insolvency after losing 744,408 BTC of customer funds (valued at over $2 billion USD at today’s prices) as well as 100,000 of its own bitcoins."

Source 1:

https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/mtgox-btc-e-and-the-missinghttps://bravenewcoin.com/insights/mtgoxbtc-e-and-the-missing-coins-a-living-tim coins-a-living-timelineelineof-the-greatest-cyber-crime-ever

Source 2:

https://www.ledger.fr/2019/02/18/hack-flasback-the-mt-gox-hack https://www.ledger.fr/2019/02/18/hack-f lasback-the-mt-gox-hack-the-most-iconic-excha -the-most-iconic-excha nge-hack/

Source 3:

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24

Date

3-4-2014

Amt Stolen ($)

1,000.00

Crypto Stolen

97 BTC

Type

Hack - Theft

Poloniex Withdrawal Hack "“The hacker discovered that if you place several withdrawals all in practically the same instant, they will get processed at more or less the same time. This will result in a negative balance, but valid insertions into the database, which then get picked up by the withdrawal daemon.”"

Source 1:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=499580

Source 2:

https://www.coindesk.com/poloniex-cl https://www.c oindesk.com/poloniex-claims-customers-repaidaims-customers-repaid-following-march-b following-march-bitc itc

Source 3:

https://coinsutra.com/biggest-bitcoin-hacks/

List #

25

Date

3-4-2014

Amt Stolen ($)

600,000.00

Crypto Stolen

896 BTC

Type Source 1:

Hack - Theft

Flexcoin Hot Wallet Hack "Alberta-based bitcoin storage specialist Flexcoin has announced that it will shut down following an attack and subsequent robbery that saw cybercriminals abscond with 896 BTC (roughly $600,000 at press time) stored in the company’s hot wallets."

https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-bankhttps://www.c oindesk.com/bitcoin-bank-flexcoin-close-600000-bit flexcoin-close-600000-bitcoin-theft coin-theft

8

List #

26

Date

3-9-2014


Type

10 BTC

Theft - Exit Scam

PonziCoin Exit Scam "Back in 2014, a crafty developer created a cryptocurrency and aptly named it PonziCoin. The idea was that it was to operate like a proper Pyramid scheme, where early investors would need to invite more people to invest in this coin in order for them to make money. Well, things didn’t go as planned as he waited for people to invest in the said cryptocurrency and he made off with approximately $7000, which is around $2.2M in today’s value, without giving any payouts to anyone."

Source 1:


Source 2:

https://techweez.com/2018/01/26/ponzicoin-crypto-scheme/

List #

27

Date

3-11-2014


Type Source 1:

800,000.00 950 BTC

Hack - Theft

"The guilt was starting to build up inside of me. I answered very few tickets the week of the 16th. I was conflicted, but I worked at my full time job >40 hours that week, so it kept my mind off of things a little. The issues continued. I kept suggesting ways we could maybe get some BTC back, arbitrage, etc. We didn’t even have enough funds for that. I wanted so bad for the exchange to stay afloat, thinking “Maybe tomorrow will bring us back our volume!” But alas, the problems with Zeit, and BTC withdrawals killed our volume. There was no coming back.”"

https://www.ccn.com/cryptorush-support https://www.c cn.com/cryptorush-support-worker-leaks-insid -worker-leaks-inside-info e-info

List #

28

Date

5-15-2014

Amt Stolen ($)

CryptoRush Hack

9,580,000.00

Crypto Stolen

13,000 BTC

Type

Hack - Theft

Cryptsy Exchange Hack "The acknowledgement of insolvency and the hack claims come after months of customer withdrawal delays, comparisons to the now-defunct Japanese bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, and the filing of a class action lawsuit against the exchange. Cryptsy said that it has outstanding liabilities of approximately 10,000 BTC, or roughly $4.15m at press time. The site, which previously said that it would suspend trading and withdrawals indefinitely, has been taken offline as of press time."

Source 1:

https://www.coindesk.com/cryptsy-bankr https://www.c oindesk.com/cryptsy-bankruptcy-millions-bit uptcy-millions-bitcoin-stolen coin-stolen

Source 2:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5441.msg1413156#msg1413156

9

List #

29

Date

10-8-2014

Amt Stolen ($)

1,300,000.00

Crypto Stolen

3,894 BTC

Type

Theft - Exit Scam

Source 1:

Mintpal Exchange Exit Scam The exchange was acquired by Moopay executive “Alex Green” who many believe was a shady scammer. A total of 3,894 BTC was stolen from Mintpal customers and never returned. Alex Green (also known by another alias, Ryan Kennedy) had fled the cryptocurrency scene. Green has since been arrested by the authorities, but for rape charges, as reported by Bitcoin.com

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-exchangehttps://news.bitco in.com/bitcoin-exchange-thefts-forgotten/ thefts-forgotten/

List #

30

Date

1-4-2015

Amt Stolen ($)

5,000,000.00

Crypto Stolen

19,000 BTC

Type

Theft - Exit Scam

Bitstamp Hot Wallet Hack "Bitstamp’s wallet system was compromised, prompting it to halt deposits and later shut down its platform entirely."

Source 1:

https://www.coindesk.com/bitstamphttps://www.c oindesk.com/bitstamp-claims-roughly-19000-bt claims-roughly-19000-btc-lost-hot-wallet c-lost-hot-wallet-hack -hack

Source 2:

https://coinsutra.com/biggest-bitcoin-hacks/

List #

31

Date

1-28-2015

Amt Stolen ($)

230,000.00

Crypto Stolen

1,000 BTC

Type Source 1:

Hack - Theft

796 Exchange Hack "According to the explanation, hackers had compromised areas of the exchange in the previous days, which had caused a user “to mention the current address has been tampered with, coupled with hackers deliberately [using] a similar address with the original withdrawals address to confuse users…”"

https://cointelegraph.com/news/chinese-exchange-suffers-1000-btc-loss-i https://cointelegraph.com/news/chinese-exchange-suf fers-1000-btc-loss-in-uncertain-s n-uncertain-s ervice-compromise

10

List #

32

Date

2-9-2015

Amt Stolen ($)

8,000,000.00

Crypto Stolen

Type

Theft - Exit Scam

MyCoin Exchange Bankruptcy (Ponzi) "On Monday, Chinese news website SCMP had published a report about a Hong Kong Bitcoin exchange MyCoin that reportedly swept away its investors’ $US387 million (equivalent to $HK3 billion). The report thoroughly noted the prima facie accounts of victims, describing how MyCoin tricked them into investing an average sum of $400,000 by promising attractive returns, but later disappeared into thin air; along with their money."

Source 1:

https://www.newsbtc.com/2015/02/10/investors-bite-dust-hong-konghttps://www.newsbtc.com/2015/02/10/i nvestors-bite-dust-hong-kong-central-bank-relea central-bank-relea ses-statement-bitcoin/

Source 2:

https://bitcoinist.com/alleged-mycoinhttps://bitcoinist .com/alleged-mycoin-scammers-arrested-tai scammers-arrested-taiwan/ wan/

List #

32

Date

2-15-2015

Amt Stolen ($)

1,750,000.00

Crypto Stolen

7,170 BTC

Type Source 1:

Hack - Theft

"Initially, BTER had posted on its website that a “security check” was underway and that the exchange would be temporarily suspended prior to another update. It remains unclear exactly how the BTER cold wallet was compromised."

https://www.coindesk.com/bter-bitc https://www.c oindesk.com/bter-bitcoin-stolen-cold-wall oin-stolen-cold-wallet-hack et-hack

List #

34

Date

2-19-2015

Amt Stolen ($)

690,000.00

Crypto Stolen

3,000 BTC

Type

Hack Theft

Source 1:

BTER Cold Wallet Hack

Kipcoin Exchange Hack "In a statement the company released through the Chinese social media website Weibo, they mentioned that they will put all their services on hold temporarily. In this post, it was also mentioned that no Chinese Yuan were stolen from the accounts."

https://www.newsbtc.com/2015/02/19/chinese-bitcoin-exchange-kipcoi https://www.newsbtc.com/2015/02/19/chi nese-bitcoin-exchange-kipcoin-shuts-claims-lo n-shuts-claims-lo sing-3000-btc-hackers/

11

List #

35

Date

3-18-2015

Amt Stolen ($)

1,200,000.00

Crypto Stolen

43,000 BTC

Type

Theft - Exit Scam

Evolution Marketplace Exit Scam "The administrators of a top deep-web marketplace have disappeared with over $12m worth of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, it emerged last night, in what appears to have been an “exit scam”."

Source 1:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/18/bitcoin-deephttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 015/mar/18/bitcoin-deep-web-evolution-exitweb-evolution-exitscam-12-million-dollars

Source 2:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments https://www.reddit.com/r/Subr edditDrama/comments/2zfkee/admins_of_evoluti /2zfkee/admins_of_evolution_mark on_mark etplace_the_current/

Source 3:

https://www.kount.com/blog-against-f https://www.k ount.com/blog-against-fraud/frauding-a-fraudst raud/frauding-a-fraudster er

List #

36

Date

5-22-2015

Amt Stolen ($)

400,000.00

Crypto Stolen

1,400 BTC

Type

Hack - Theft

Bitfinex Hot Wallet Hack "Bitfinex loses 1,500 bitcoin, worth $400,000 at the time, when its hot wallets, connected directly to the internet, are hacked. The amount represents 0.06 percent of the company’s total holdings. Bitfinex indicates it will absorb the losses."

Source 1:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitfinex-hot-wall https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bi tfinex-hot-wallets-hacked-1400-bitcoin-may ets-hacked-1400-bitcoin-may-stole -stole n-1432326539/

Source 2:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/w https://bitcoinmagazi ne.com/articles/warning-signs-timel arning-signs-timeline-tether-and-bitfi ine-tether-and-bitfinex-events/ nex-events/

Source 3:

https://www.hackread.com/bitcoin-exchangehttps://www.h ackread.com/bitcoin-exchange-bitfinex-hot-wall bitfinex-hot-wallet-hacked/ et-hacked/

List #

37

Date

9-17-2015

Amt Stolen ($)

1,800,000.00

Crypto Stolen

5,000 BTC

Type

Theft - Exit Scam

Source 1:

Bitpay Social Engineering Theft "The attacker subsequently obtained email credentials for BitPay CFO Bryan Krohn, which were then used to prompt CEO Stephen Pair and executive chairman Tony Gallippi to authorize three payments totalling 5,000 BTC on 11th and 12th December, including one transaction from a wallet on the bitcoin exchange Bitstamp."

https://www.coindesk.com/bitpay-sues-insurer-after-losinghttps://www.coindesk.com/bitpay-sues-i nsurer-after-losing-1-8-million-in1-8-million-in-phishing-attac phishing-attac k

12 List #

38

Date

4-7-2016

Amt Stolen ($)

200,000.00

Crypto Stolen

469 BTC

Type

Hack - Theft

Shapeshift Exchange Hack "Since the investigation into the ShapeShift hack last week started, we had suspicion that someone previously on the team was involved, and that this person assisted an outside hacker. We are confident now that is is indeed the case. The story continues to unfold, and evidence continues to be revealed. We have been working with a forensic specialist from LedgerLabs, who has been terrific. A civil suit is ongoing, as are multiple criminal investigations of the perpetrators."

Source 1:

https://info.shapeshift.io/blog/2016/04/19/blog-2016-04-19-timelinehttps://info.shapeshift.io/blog/2016/04/19/bl og-2016-04-19-timeline-shapeshift-hacking-i shapeshift-hacking-i ncident/

Source 2:

http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/04/25/shapeshif http://hackingdistri buted.com/2016/04/25/shapeshift-hack-simply-incr t-hack-simply-incredible/ edible/

List #

39

Date

5-13-2016

Amt Stolen ($)

2,500,000.00

Crypto Stolen

250 BTC

Type Source 1:

Hack - Theft

40

Date

6-17-2016

Crypto Stolen

Type

"News emerged last week of yet another security event in the digital currency exchange ecosystem, this time impacting a Hong Kong-based service involved in the sale of assets related to Ethereum-based decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). As reported on Friday, Gatecoin experienced a cyberattack on its hot wallets that resulted in the loss of funds. A new update from the exchange team indicated that as much as $2m was lost, confirming rumors that circulated soon after the hack became apparent."

https://www.coindesk.com/gatecoin-2-m https://www.c oindesk.com/gatecoin-2-million-bitcoin-et illion-bitcoin-ether-security-breach her-security-breach

List #

Amt Stolen ($)

Gatecoin Hack

DAO Hack

60,000,000.00 "This exploit in the DAO is clearly not trivial; the exact programming pattern 3.6M ETH

Hack - Theft

that made the DAO vulnerable was not only known, but fixed by the DAO creators themselves in an earlier intended update to the framework's code. Ironically, as they were writing their blog posts and claiming victory, the hacker was preparing and deploying an exploit that targeted the same function they had just fixed to drain the DAO of all its funds."

Source 1:

https://www.coindesk.com/dao-attacked-codehttps://www.c oindesk.com/dao-attacked-code-issue-leads-60-mill issue-leads-60-million-ether-theft ion-ether-theft

Source 2:

http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/06/18/analy

13 List #

41

Date

8-2-2016

Bitfinex Security Breach

Amt Stolen ($)

72,000,000.00 "Zane Tackett, Director of Community & Product Development for Bitfinex,

Crypto Stolen

119,756 BTC

Type

Hack - Theft

told Reuters on Wednesday that 119,756 bitcoins had been stolen from users’ accounts and that the exchange hadn’t yet decided how to address customer losses..."

Source 1:

http://blog.bitfinex.com/announcements/security-breach/

Source 2:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/04/worlds-largest-bitcoin-dol https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/04/worl ds-largest-bitcoin-dollar-exchange-ro lar-exchange-ro bbed/

Source 3:

https://www.ccn.com/bitgo-claim https://www.c cn.com/bitgo-claims-software-not-faul s-software-not-fault-bitfinex-hack t-bitfinex-hack

List #

42

Date

2-17-2017


Bitcurex Exchanges hack

50,000,000.00 "Polish bitcoin exchange Bitcurex just posted an update announcing it will 2,300 BTC Hack - Theft

close following a hack attack several days ago — resulting in $1.5 going missing. It’s one of the bigger bitcoin exchanges serving the European market, specifically for trading zloty and also euros."

Source 1:

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcurex-for https://news.bitco in.com/bitcurex-forced-million-theft ced-million-theft//

Source 2:

https://bitcoinist.com/bitcurex-owner https://bitcoinist .com/bitcurex-owner-disappears-2300-btc/ -disappears-2300-btc/

List #

43

Date

2-17-17

Amt Stolen ($) Crypto Stolen Type Source 1:

ZCash Glitch Hack

"The team said the bug was created due to one extra character left inside Zerocoin source code that allowed the unknown attacker to reuse his/her 370,000 ZCash existing valid proofs to generate additional Zerocoin spend transactions."

585,000.00

Hack - Theft https://thehackernews.com/2017/02/zcoin-zerocoin-typo.html

14 List #

44

Date

2-24-2017

Amt Stolen ($)

1,800,000.00

Crypto Stolen

Type Source 1:

Theft - Exit Scam

45

Date

4-24-2017

Amt Stolen ($)

680,000.00

Crypto Stolen

Source 1:

Theft - Exit Scam

Asian-European Currency Ponzi Scam "Suspect, Xu, registered the company at Hainan City Commerce Department. In the registration, the company stated that its main business involves dealing virtual currency online. Under the guise of a legally registered company, it conducted a get-rich-quick scheme operated in the form of a multilayer marketing program which promised investors high returns."

https://cointelegraph.com/news/digitalhttps://cointelegraph. com/news/digital-currency-scam-in-chinacurrency-scam-in-china-involved-47000-people involved-47000-people

List #

46

Date

4-26-2017

Amt Stolen ($)

7,600,000.00

Crypto Stolen

3,831 BTC

Type

"Cisco identified an attack pattern in which the threat actors behind the operation would establish a "gateway" phishing link that would appear in search results among Google Ads. When searching for crypto-related keywords such as "blockchain" or "bitcoin wallet," the spoofed links would appear at the top of search results. When clicked, the link would redirect to a "lander" page and serve phishing content in the native language of the geographic region of the victim's IP address."

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/02/coinhoarder.html

List #

Type

Coinhoarder Phishing Scams

Yapizon Exchange Exchange Hack "Appearing to follow in the footsteps of fellow exchange Bitfinex after its hack last year, Yapizon said it would dock remaining customer balances by the same amount to spread the burden of the losses."

Hack - Theft

Source 1:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/67lam https://www.reddit.com/r/Bi tcoin/comments/67lamq/yapizon_exchange_korea_got_hac q/yapizon_exchange_korea_got_hac ked_lost_3831_btc/

Source 2:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/korean-bitcoin-exchange-yapizon-confirm https://cointelegraph.com/news/korean-bitcoi n-exchange-yapizon-confirms-5-mln-hacks-5-mln-hackall-customers-to-pay-with-balances

15 List #

47

Date

5-17-2017

Amt Stolen ($)

2,900,000.00

Crypto Stolen

388 BTC

Type Source 1:


48

Date

6-2-2017

Amt Stolen ($)

Type

YIz: "iudica and me are looking for the victims of the Opair.co and Ebitz.org scams. both scams, were confirmed by me a few months ago to be connected to each other and done by the same guy(s)."

Theft - Exit Scam

List #

Crypto Stolen

eBitz Exit Scam

60,000 ETH


QuadrigaCX Contract Error "Earlier this week, we noticed an irregularity with regards to the sweeping process of incoming Ether to the exchange. The usual process involved sweeping the ether into a ETH/ETC splitter contract, before forwarding the ether to our hot wallet. Due to an issue when we upgraded from Geth 1.5.3 to 1.5.9, this contract failed to execute the hot wallet transfer for a few days in May. As a result, a significant sum of Ether has effectively been trapped in the splitter contract. The issue that caused this situation has since been resolved."

Source 1:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6ettq5/st https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum /comments/6ettq5/statement_on_quadrigacx_ether_ atement_on_quadrigacx_ether_ contract_error/

Source 2:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EthereumClassic/comment https://www.reddit.com/r/Et hereumClassic/comments/6ewtun/quadrigacx_exchange_al s/6ewtun/quadrigacx_exchange_alll egedly_lost_60000_eth_due/

List #

49

Date

6-26-2017

Amt Stolen ($)

8,000,000.00

Crypto Stolen

Type Source 1:

Hack - Theft

VERI ICO Hack "Just a week after a prominent ICO saw its sale disrupted, the team behind Veritaseum, the issuer of a cryptocurrency called VERI, is claiming 36,000 of its tokens were stolen and subsequently exchanged for ether...After one user posted a screen capture of Veritaseum founder Reggie Middleton mentioning the hack on Slack, Middleton later confirmed the theft. There, he said the hackers “dumped” the tokens within a few hours and without the public knowing about the hack...Based on the address of the hacker or hackers that Middleton located in his post, all the stolen tokens were exchanged on EtherDelta, a decentralized trading platform, of which 80 percent of the volume is in VERI. The exchange only supports the VERI to ETH trading pair."

https://www.coindesk.com/veritaseumhttps://www.c oindesk.com/veritaseum-founder-claims-8-mi founder-claims-8-million-ico-token-st llion-ico-token-stolen olen

16 List #

50

Date

6-29-2017

Amt Stolen ($)

31,000,000.00 "A cyber attack late last week resulted in the loss of billions of won from

Crypto Stolen Type

Bitthumb Hack and PII Leak

Hack - Theft

customers accounts...Hackers succeeded in grabbing the personal information of 31,800 Bithumb website users, including their names, mobile phone numbers and email addresses."

Source 1:

https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/fourth-largest-bitcoin-exchangehttps://bravenewcoin.com/insights/fourthlargest-bitcoin-exchange-bithumb-hacked-forbithumb-hacked-forbillions-of-won

Source 2:

http://blog.buildout.com/bitcoin-serverhttp://blog.buildout .com/bitcoin-server-hacked-future-of-blockchai hacked-future-of-blockchain-in-cre/ n-in-cre/

List #

51

Date

6-29-2017


1,001 ETH Hack - Theft

52

Date

7-4-2017 4,000,000.00

Crypto Stolen

Type Source 1:

"According to a Reddit thread, the attack took place around midnight between Thursday, June 29, and Friday, June 30, when the unknown hacker convinced the support staff at web hosting provider 1on1 to concede control over the official domain from its real owner."

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/classichttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/new s/security/classic-ether-wallet-hacked-user ether-wallet-hacked-users-re s-re port-massive-losses/

List #

Amt Stolen ($)

ClassicEtherWallet DNS Hack

Theft - Exit Scam

AlphaBay Exit Scam "The vulnerability to exit scams comes from how these marketplaces operate. AlphaBay (and nearly all online drug markets like it) use an escrow system, ostensibly to protect buyers and sellers...But when AlphaBay went offline, there were likely tens of thousands of orders still in AlphaBay’s escrow. And any users or vendors who kept crypto-currency in their “wallet” on AlphaBay’s servers are now unable to withdraw their money."

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/alphabay-exit-scam-may-be-t http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/al phabay-exit-scam-may-be-the-biggest-one-ye he-biggest-one-ye t.html

17 List #

53

Date

7-18-2017

Amt Stolen ($)

7,000,000.00

Crypto Stolen

35,000 ETH

Type

Hack - Theft

CoinDash ICO Cryptojack "CoinDash, an Israeli startup, planned to raise capital by selling its own digital tokens in exchange for the cryptocurrency Ethereum, which is similar to Bitcoin. But just 13 minutes into the token sale, which began at 9 a.m. ET Monday, an “unknown perpetrator” hacked CoinDash’s website and changed the address for sending investments to a fake one, the company later announced on its website. That diverted millions of dollars in contributions to the attacker."

Source 1:

http://fortune.com/2017/07/18/ethereum-coindash-ico-hack/

Source 2:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hack https://www.z dnet.com/article/hacker-returns-20000-eth-stol er-returns-20000-eth-stolen-during-coindash-ico/ en-during-coindash-ico/

Source 2:

https://blog.coindash.io/20-000-eth-were-sent-from-the-hacker-addresshttps://blog.coindash.io/20-000-eth-were-sentfrom-the-hacker-address-back-to-coinda back-to-coinda sh-product-launch-stay-on-schedule-12d2c75c42d5

List #

54

Date

7-19-2017

Parity Wallet Breach

Amt Stolen ($)

30,000,000.00 "As reported by the startup, the issue is the result of a bug in a specific

Crypto Stolen

153,000 ETH

Type

Hack - Theft

Source 1:

multi-signature contract known as wallet.sol. Data suggests the issue was mitigated, however, as 377,000 ethers that were potentially vulnerable to the issue were recovered by white hat hackers."

https://www.coindesk.com/30-mill https://www.c oindesk.com/30-million-ether-reported-stol ion-ether-reported-stolen-parity-walleten-parity-wallet-breach breach

List #

55

Date

7-25-2017


66,000 BTC

Type

Theft - Exit Scam

BTC-e shut down, exit scam "According to Pawel Kuskowski, CEO & Co Founder at Coinfirm, right after the arrest of Alexander Vinnik, broadly referred to as the mastermind behind BTC-e, over 66,000 BTC were moved from 18f1yugoAJuXcHAbsuRVLQC9TezJ6iVRLp across the Bitcoin ecosystem."

Source 1:


Source 2:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/tracing-66000-bitcoins-what-wehttps://cointelegraph.com/news/tracing-66000bitcoins-what-we-should-learn-from-btc should-learn-from-btc-e -e -story

18 List #

56

Date

8-21-2017

Amt Stolen ($)

500,000.00

Crypto Stolen

1,500 ETH

Type

Theft - Exit Scam

Source 1:

Enigma ICO Accounts Scam "According to a statement from the Enigma team, those involved in the thefts were able to take control of the project’s website domain, one of the administrator accounts on its Slack channel and its mailing lists. Once in control, according to reports on social media, those involved began masquerading as the official team and distributing solicitations for an initial coin offering “presale.”"

https://www.coindesk.com/ico-scammers-steal-500k-phony-enigmahttps://www.coindesk.com/ico-scamm ers-steal-500k-phony-enigma-project-pre-sale-lau project-pre-sale-lau nch

List #

57

Date

11-6-2017


513,774 ETH

Type


Parity Frozen Wallets Bug "The security vulnerability which activated the freeze was found yesterday in ethereum’s second most popular client by a developer going by the name “devopps199,” who reported it on GitHub...The vulnerability affects any Parity wallet deployed after July 20 that uses the company’s “multi-signature” functionality. Under a multi-signature arrangement, more than one key is required to initiate and broadcast transactions."

Source 1:

https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/issues/6995

Source 2:

https://medium.com/new-alchemy/a-short-history-of-smart https://medium.com/new-alchemy/a-short -history-of-smart-contract-hacks-on-ethereum -contract-hacks-on-ethereum -1a30020b5fd

Source 3:

https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-client-bug-freezes-user-f https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-cl ient-bug-freezes-user-funds-fallout-remainsunds-fallout-remains-unc unc ertain

List #

58

Date

11-21-2017

Amt Stolen ($)

Tether Critical Announcement

30,950,010.00 "“Yesterday, we discovered that funds were improperly removed from the

Crypto Stolen

30M USDT

Type

Hack - Theft

Tether treasury wallet through malicious action by an external attacker. $30,950,010 USDT was removed from the Tether Treasury wallet on November 19, 2017 and sent to an unauthorized bitcoin address. As Tether is the issuer of the USDT managed asset, we will not redeem any of the stolen tokens, and we are in the process of attempting token recovery to prevent them from entering the broader ecosystem.”"

Source 1:

https://tether.to/tether-critical-announcement/

Source 2:

https://www.ccn.com/tether-treasur https://www.c cn.com/tether-treasury-hacked-31-million-f y-hacked-31-million-flagged-as-not-redeemable lagged-as-not-redeemable

19 List #

59

Date

11-26-2017

Amt Stolen ($)

3,000,000.00

Crypto Stolen

Type

Hack - Theft

Bitcoin Gold Wallet Repository Hack "users who downloaded the official Windows wallet from the Bitcoin Gold website or GitHub repository also received two suspicious files of unknown origin. Presumably, these files were created to steal user funds or information, so the developers strongly advised anyone who downloaded the Windows wallet client during this period to take extreme caution to protect themselves and their funds..."

Source 1:

https://www.ccn.com/hackers-infil https://www.c cn.com/hackers-infiltrate-official-b trate-official-bitcoin-gold-wallet itcoin-gold-wallet-repository -repository

Source 2:

https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-gold-wallet-scam-nets-f https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-gold-w allet-scam-nets-fraudsters-3-2-mill raudsters-3-2-million-after-stealingion-after-stealingusers-private-keys

List #

60

Date

12-6-2017


NiceHash Exchange hack

60,000,000.00 "Users report that funds have been moved from their own internal Nicehash 4,700 BTC

Bitcoin addresses to a single Bitcoin address controlled by an unknown party."

Hack - Theft

Source 1:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NiceHash/comments/7i0s6o/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Ni ceHash/comments/7i0s6o/official_press_release_st official_press_release_statement atement _by_nicehash/

Source 2:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/mining-service-nicehash-hacked-60-mi https://cointelegraph.com/news/mining-ser vice-nicehash-hacked-60-million-in-user-fund llion-in-user-fund s-stolen

List #

61

Date

12-19-2017

Amt Stolen ($)

unknown

Crypto Stolen

Type Source 1:

Hack - Theft

Youbit Exchange Exchange Hack "The cyber attack is the second for Youbit, previously known Yapizon. The exchange was previously targeted in April in an attack which South Korean officials believe was conducted with the support of neighboring North Korea. Recent reports indicate that intelligence services in South Korea suspect that North Korea is behind additional attacks against domestic cryptocurrency exchanges, including market-leader Bithumb."

https://www.coindesk.com/south-korean-bi https://www.c oindesk.com/south-korean-bitcoin-exchange-declare-bankrupt tcoin-exchange-declare-bankruptcy-hack cy-hack

20 List #

62

Date

12-25-2017

Amt Stolen ($)

unknown

Crypto Stolen Type

Theft - Exit Scam

RegalCoin Ponzi Shut Down "Regal Coin started with quite a splash...The ICO coin sold out rather quickly...I believe the scammers basically bought up most of the coin themselves, allowing only a token amount out to the general public. One person who bought some, said it sold out in five minutes, and the website was very fragile, because it had tons of traffic."

Source 1:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2645149.0;all

Source 2:

https://steemit.com/scam/@crypti https://steemit. com/scam/@cryptick/regal-coin-the-nextck/regal-coin-the-next-bitconnect-ponzi-scam bitconnect-ponzi-scam

List #

63

Date

1-7-2018


ATT Customer Claims Sim Jacking

23,800,000.00 "Terpin says AT&T was his mobile carrier when criminals accessed his unknown

cellphone account by carrying out SIM swap fraud. They then stole the tokens and allegedly transferred his account to an international criminal gang."

Hack - Theft https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/15/17695132/att-sued-over-lost-crypt https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/15/17695132/at t-sued-over-lost-cryptocurrency-sim-s ocurrency-sim-s wap-theft

Source 2:

List #

64

Date

1-14-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

400,000.00

Crypto Stolen

670,000 XLM

Type

Hack - Theft

Source 1:

BlackWallet Hack "According to cybersecurity reearcher Kevin Beaumont, the attacker hijacked BlackWallet’s domain name system (DNS) server over the weekend, adding a piece of code which transferred any deposits of 20 or more lumens into another wallet."

https://www.coindesk.com/400k-hacker-makes-off-with-stel https://www.coindesk.com/400k-hacker-mak es-off-with-stellar-lumens-in-blackw lar-lumens-in-blackwallet-th allet-th eft

21 List #

65

Date

1-16-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

unknown

Crypto Stolen Type Source 1:

Theft - Exit Scam

66

Date

1-23-2018 2,700,000.00

Crypto Stolen Type

"According to the statement, the company will “continue offering other cryptocurrency services in the future.” The equally questionnable BitConnect X ICO – which was explicitly named in a cease and desist letter served by the Texas Securities Board – will remain “functional.”"

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/01/16/bit https://thenextweb.com /hardfork/2018/01/16/bitconnect-shut-down-closed/ connect-shut-down-closed/

List #

Amt Stolen ($)

Bitconnect Shut Down

Theft - Exit Scam

Benebit Exit Scam "However, things started to go south when someone noticed that photos of the team appeared to have been stolen from a UK school for boys. Passport details provided by the ‘founders,’ were all fake. After this revelation, the team behind the scam began pulling down anything related to Benebit, including the website, white paper, and social media accounts."

Source 1:

https://news.bitcoin.com/benebit-ico-r https://news.bitco in.com/benebit-ico-runner-2-7-million-i unner-2-7-million-investor-funds/ nvestor-funds/

Source 2:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/dont-believe-the-hype-the-five-lar https://cointelegraph.com/news/dont-believethe-hype-the-five-largest-ico-exit-scamsgest-ico-exit-scams-e e xpert-take

List #

67

Date

1-26-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

400,000.00

Crypto Stolen

500M NEM

Type

Hack - Theft

Coincheck Exchange Hack "The Coincheck hack is the latest in a series of attacks targeting digital currency exchanges. Cybercriminals have been taking advantage of security weaknesses at young, often unregulated businesses that are handling huge sums of other people's money."

Source 1:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/cryptocur https://www.bloomberg.com/news/art icles/2018-01-26/cryptocurrencies-drop-after-j rencies-drop-after-japa apa nese-exchange-halts-withdrawals

Source 2:

https://money.cnn.com/2018/01/29/technology/coincheck-cryptocurrency-exchange-hac https://money.cnn.com/2018/01/29/technology/coincheck -cryptocurrency-exchange-hac k-japan/index.html

22 List #

68

Date

1-29-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

150,000.00


Theft - Exit Scam

69

Date

2-1-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

920,000.00

Crypto Stolen

890 ETH

Source 1:

"Users were asked to send money to a Ethereum wallet if they wanted to buy EXY tokens and be part of the ICO. These emails probably did not look too suspicious because they contained a lot of private user information, such as their ETH address and the correct amount of ETH the recipient pledged to contribute to the ICO."

https://cryptonews.com/news/experty-ico-hacked-data-leaked-usd-150k-stol https://cryptonews.com/news/experty-icohacked-data-leaked-usd-150k-stolen-1109.ht en-1109.ht m

List #

Type

Experty ICO Scam

Theft - Exit Scam

Bee Token ICO Scam "However, while the startup runs its token sale, scammers posing as operators appeared to have launched their own version. Using email addresses like [email protected], the scammers contacted would-be buyers who then signed up for the full token sale."

https://www.coindesk.com/bee-token-phishing-scam

List #

70

Date

2-4-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

1,800,000.00

Crypto Stolen

2,162 ETH

Type

Theft - Exit Scam

Seele ICO Insider Hack "The scammers, posing as two admins of Seele’s official Telegram channel @SeeleSupport and @nicsmith, solicited members of the Seele chat over the direct messaging feature for Ether as part of a private sale. Dr. Nick Smith is a data analyst at Seele, and the Telegram channel reported that the scammer used his name and picture on the fake admin account."

Source 1:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/scammers-steal-over-18-mln-by-p https://cointelegraph.com/news/scammers-s teal-over-18-mln-by-posing-as-admins-of-st osing-as-admins-of-st eele-ico

Source 2:

https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/cant-even-t https://www.financemagnates.com/crypt ocurrency/news/cant-even-trust-admins-now-al rust-admins-now-alll eged-employees-seele-steal-2-million/

23 List #

71

Date

2-11-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

120,000,000.00 "Just last Thursday, the core team was contacted by Firano in regard to a loss

Crypto Stolen

170M NANO

Type

Hack - Theft

Source 1:

72

Date

3-1-2018

BTC Global Ponzi Scheme

50,000,000.00 "Numerous victims from across the country told TimesLIVE that they had

Crypto Stolen Type

from the BitGrail wallet. According to a leaked conversation, 15 million Nano was reported ‘stolen’ by Firano, and a request was made to fork the chain. However, Nano developer Zack Shapiro pointed out the fact that the situation had been going on for months. It seems as though Firano was dealing with undisclosed issues of insolvency rather than an apparent hack."

https://bitcoinist.com/bitgrail-cryptocurrency-exchange-hacked-170-m https://bitcoinist.com/bitgrail-cr yptocurrency-exchange-hacked-170-million-nano-alleged illion-nano-alleged ly-stolen/

List #

Amt Stolen ($)

Bitgrail NANO Hack

Theft - Exit Scam

invested between R16‚000 and R1.4-million with BTC Global, as forex and commodities trader “Steve Twain” was a "master trader". They received inconsistent weekly payouts until “Twain” disappeared two weeks ago. They now believe that “Twain” did not exist."

Source 1:

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-01https://www.timeslive.co.za/new s/south-africa/2018-03-01-50-million-crytoc 50-million-crytocurrency-sca urrency-sca m-cripples-south-african-investors/

Source 2:

https://www.coindesk.com/south-afri https://www.c oindesk.com/south-african-investor-makes-offcan-investor-makes-off-50m-in-crypto-scam 50m-in-crypto-scam

List #

73

Date

4-8-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

300,000,000.00 "Bharadwaj, along with his associates had started the multilevel marketing

Crypto Stolen Type

GainBitcoin India Ponzi Scam

Theft - Exit Scam

scheme and would conduct seminars to lure victims into investing in Bitcoin, with assurances of large financial gains. He took help of Pankaj Ladakhiya, a motivational speaker, who would conduct seminars in India and abroad. Bhardwaj stopped paying returns to investors and fled in January."

Source 1:

https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-enforcement-dir https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/r eport-enforcement-directorate-registers-fi ectorate-registers-first-case-i rst-case-i n-gainbitcoin-fraud-2602202

Source 2:

https://www.coingdp.com/news/is-there-a-link-between-bi https://www.coingdp.com/news/is-t here-a-link-between-bitconnect-and-gainbitcointconnect-and-gainbitcoin-sca sca ms-crypto-news-india-finds-out

Source 3:

https://behindmlm.com/companies/451-999-bitcoin-recovered-from-gai https://behindmlm.com/companies/451-999-bit coin-recovered-from-gain-bitcoin-scamm n-bitcoin-scamm ers/

24 List #

74

Date

4-10-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

1,300,000.00

Crypto Stolen

200 BTC

Type

Theft Extortion

Sailesh Bhatt Alleged Extortion "Bhatt notes that Paladiya told him that he was under observance by the Indian economic law agency, the Enforcement Directorate, for dealing in BTC, after which he was called in for a meeting with Paladiya and then allegedly abducted in police vehicles. DGP Bhatia has confirmed that government vehicles were used in the abduction."

Source 1:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/india-police-officers-beat-exhort https://cointelegraph.com/news/india-poli ce-officers-beat-exhorted-200-btc-from-busine ed-200-btc-from-busine ssman-local-sources-say

Source 2:

https://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/cryptok https://www.business-standard.com/arti cle/markets/cryptokidnapping-gujarat-styleidnapping-gujarat-style-or-h or-h ow-to-lose-3-bn-of-bitcoin-in-india-118081000124_1.html

List #

75

Date

4-12-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

650,000,000.00 "Modern Tech guaranteed that the lowest interest they would receive would

Crypto Stolen

Type Source 1:

Theft - Exit Scam

76

Date

4-13-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

3,300,000.00

Crypto Stolen

438 BTC

Source 1:

be 48 percent per month, with a payback period of less than four months. In addition, if investors could find a new entrant, they would receive an additional 8 percent. In the beginning, Modern Tech paid investors via bank transfers. However, it quickly switched to using its virtual currency, while at the same time increasing its minimum investment limit, forcing investors to pour more money in."

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/business/vietnamese-investors-fall-f https://e.vnexpress.net/news/business/vietnames e-investors-fall-for-650-mln-cryptocurr or-650-mln-cryptocurr ency-scam-3735380.html

List #

Type

iFan Ponzi Scheme

Hack - Theft

Coinsecure Exchange Hack "According to a statement on the company’s website, the funds were lost as a result of the exposure of private keys, the cryptographic code that unlocks and moves blockchain-based assets, by the company’s chief security officer Dr. Amitabh Saxena in an attempt to distribute bitcoin gold (BTG) to cust omers."

https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-exchange-names-security-offi https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-exc hange-names-security-officer-suspect-3-3-mil cer-suspect-3-3-millionliontheft

25

List #

77

Date

4-24-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

152,000.00

Crypto Stolen

215 ETH

Type Source 1:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/8ek86t/war https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum /comments/8ek86t/warning_myetherwalletcom ning_myetherwalletcom_highj _highj acked_on_google/

78

Date

5-23-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

1,500,000.00

Crypto Stolen

2,578 BTC

Source 1:

Date

6-5-2018

Type

Source 1:

"The stolen eth was the entire amount they raised in or around February in an ICO, with the hacker so seemingly looting everything."

https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/05/23/taylor-crypto-tradinghttps://www.trustnodes.com/2018/05/23/t aylor-crypto-trading-ico-hacked-1-5-milli ico-hacked-1-5-million-wo on-wo rth-eth

79

Crypto Stolen

Taylor Trading Crypto ICO Hack

Hack - Theft

List #

Amt Stolen ($)

"Do not use myetherwallet.com if you're using Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4) at this moment, it seems these DNS servers are resolving the domain to a bad server that CAN steal your keys!"

Hack - Theft

List #

Type

MyEtherWallet DNS Hack

Syndicate Wallet ICO Hack

10,000,000.00 "involved a Japanese syndicate that had gathered participants for Shopin's ? ETH

Hack - Theft

Token Generation Event using a hot MyEtherWallet storage wallet containing a large amount of various tokens, including 61 million Shopin Tokens. Shortly after successfully receiving the allotment of participant tokens, the syndicate member's wallet was hacked by what authorities believe was someone with credentialed access."

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/japanese-syndicat https://www.prnewswire.com/new s-releases/japanese-syndicate-wallet-hacked-10-mi e-wallet-hacked-10-milli lli on-usd-reported-missing-300660484.html?tc=eml_cleartime

26

List #

80

Date

6-10-2018


40,000,000.00 "However, Coinrail only provided the names of some of the tokens that were 1,927 ETH Hack - Theft

taken in the alleged breach without disclosing the exact amounts at stake. These included the NPXS token from the Pundi X project, ATC from Aston and the NPER project’s NPER token."

https://www.coindesk.com/coinrail-exchange-hacked-loses-possiblyhttps://www.coindesk.com/coinrailexchange-hacked-loses-possibly-40-million-in-cr 40-million-in-crypto ypto s

List #

81

Date

7-9-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

Coinrail Exchange Hack

Bancor Hack

23,500,000.00 "The Israel-Switzerland company raised over $150 million in an ICO last year

Crypto Stolen

24,894 BTC

Type

Hack - Theft

and its services include a wallet with a built-in exchange service. Today, Bancor said in a statement that “a wallet used to upgrade some smart contracts was compromised.”"

Source 1:

https://twitter.com/Bancor/status/1016420621666963457

Source 2:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/10/bancor-loses-23-5m/

List #

82

Date

7-26-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

7,700,000.00

Crypto Stolen

700M KICK

Type

Hack - Theft

KICKICO Security Breach "On July 26 at 9:04 (UTC) KICKICO has experienced a security breach, which resulted in the attackers gaining access to the account of the KICK smart contract — tokens of the KICKICO platform. The team learned about this incident after the complaints of several victims, who did not find tokens worth 800 thousand dollars in their wallets."

Source 1:

https://medium.com/@kickico/kickico-security-breach-issu https://medium.com/@kickico/kicki co-security-breach-issue-under-control-all-ki e-under-control-all-kickcoinsckcoinswill-be-returned-ebe65a491dec

Source 2:

https://www.ccn.com/another-ico-hacked-kickico-loses-8-mil https://www.ccn.com/another-ico-hackedkickico-loses-8-million-after-smart lion-after-smart-contract-br -contract-br each

27 List #

83

Date

9-5-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

400,000,000.00 "OneCoin was a multi-level marketing company that tricked investors into

Crypto Stolen

Type

OneCoin Ponzi scheme

Theft - Exit Scam

buying into what they believed to be a legitimate investment. After the investments were taken in, Marks and his co-conspirators laundered the investor money through several shell companies based all around the world. Some of the money laundered—around USD $400 million of funds stolen from defrauded investors—was used to purchase a massive mansion for Scott and his family in Massachusetts."

Source 1:

https://www.scribd.com/document/397996997/Mark-Scott

Source 2:

https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/onecoin-crypto-scam-fraudster-gets-indi https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/onecoin-crypto-scam -fraudster-gets-indicted-on-400cted-on-400million-money-laundering-charge/

Source 2:

http://kusetukset.blogspot.com/2018/10/onecoin-d-day http://kusetukset.blogs pot.com/2018/10/onecoin-d-day-8th-october-2018.html -8th-october-2018.html

List #

84

Date

9-20-2018


Type Source 1:

60,000,000.00 "The licensed exchange, called Zaif, is operated by the Tech Bureau. It said 913 BTC

Hack - Theft

85

Date

10-8-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

40,000.00

Crypto Stolen

165 ETH

Source 1:

on Thursday that the exchange first noticed an unusual outflow of funds on the platform around 17:00 Japan time on September 14, after which the company suspended asset deposit and withdrawal services. Tech Bureau explained that after further investigation, it discovered that hackers with unauthorized access to the exchange’s hot wallets had stolen roughly $60 million in bitcoin, bitcoin cash, and MonaCoin. That being said, the exact amount of bitcoin cash stolen remains unknown."

https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-exchangehttps://www.c oindesk.com/crypto-exchange-zaif-hacked-in-60-mil zaif-hacked-in-60-million-6000-bitcoin-thef lion-6000-bitcoin-theftt

List #

Type

Zaif Exchange Hack

Hack - Theft

SpankChain ICO Hack "“Unfortunately, as we were in the middle of investigating other smart contract bugs, we didn’t realize the hack had taken place until 7:00pm PST Sunday, at which point we took Spank.Live offline to prevent any additional funds from being deposited into the payment channels smart contract.”"

https://www.coindesk.com/spankchain-loseshttps://www.c oindesk.com/spankchain-loses-40k-in-hack-due-to-smar 40k-in-hack-due-to-smart-contract-bug t-contract-bug

28

List #

86

Date

10-15-2018


Type

Theft Extortion

William Kopko Ransom Nine of the suspects were arrested in Costa Rica while three were nabbed in Spain, according to Television New Zealand. It’s now three months since the American businessman was kidnapped in the Central American country. Kopko’s family paid a ransom of nearly $950,000 in bitcoin which was demanded shortly after he disappeared. However, Kopko, who owns the online gambling platform 5Dimes, was never released and is still missing."

Source 1:

https://www.ccn.com/1-million-in-bitcoin-ransom-pa https://www.ccn.com/1-millionin-bitcoin-ransom-paid-american-in-costaid-american-in-costa-rica-still-mi rica-still-missin ssin g

Source 2:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610803/true-scale-of-bit https://www.technologyreview.com/s/ 610803/true-scale-of-bitcoin-ransomware-extor coin-ransomware-extortio tio n-revealed/

List #

87

Date

10-25-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

450,000.00

Crypto Stolen

100,000 XRP

Type

Hack - Theft

Source 1:

88

Date

10-28-2018

Crypto Stolen Type

"The victim told investigators he believed his email account had been hacked the previous month and was subsequently locked out of his account for two days in mid-January. When he regained control of the account and checked the activity, he noticed his cryptocurrency account had also been compromised leaving almost a zero balance."

https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/investing/woman-ar https://www.news.com.au/finance/m oney/investing/woman-arrested-over-450000-crypt rested-over-450000-crypt o-theft/news-story/17f2c4d0a5cb83b31279505255280bbf

List #

Amt Stolen ($)

Australia XRP Hack

6,000,000.00 913 BTC Theft - Exit Scam

MapleChange Exchange Exit Scam "Due to a bug, some people have managed to withdraw all the funds from our exchange. We are in the process of a thorough investigation for this. We are extremely sorry that it has to come to end like this. Until the investigation is over, we cannot refund anything."

Source 1:

https://bitcoinist.com/canada-maplechange-exit-scam/

Source 2:

https://blog.saturn.network/list-of-documented-exchange-hacks/#exchange_hacks_201 https://blog.saturn.network/list-ofdocumented-exchange-hacks/#exchange_hacks_201 8

29

List #

89

Date

10-29-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

300,000.00

Crypto Stolen

Type

Theft - Exit Scam

Oyster Protocol CEO Exit Scam "Earlier today, it was discovered that the transferDirector function was utilized on the Oyster Protocol token contract. This allowed the new director to re-open the ICO for PRL and re-issue new tokens (1 ETH = 5000 PRL / .04 per PRL). The individual in question then sent these tokens (upwards of 3M PRL) to KuCoin where the tokens were market sold. They were able to extract ~$300,000 in funds prior to us being able to shut down trading and withdrawals on KuCoin."

Source 1:

https://medium.com/@bill_26126/oyster-update-b813390ce10e

Source 2:

http://cryptocenternews.com/2018/10/oyster-protocol-founder-exit-scam http://cryptocenternews.com/2018/10/oyster-pr otocol-founder-exit-scams-steals-30000 s-steals-30000 0-from-ico-contract/

List #

90

Date

11-7-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

2,400,000.00

Crypto Stolen

Type Source 1:

Theft - Exit Scam

Dragon Coin Exit Scam "During the hearings, Thai prosecutors accused the three defendants and six accomplices of defrauding 21-year-old Finnish investor Aamai Otava Saarimaa back in 2017. According to the investigation, he was persuaded to buy shares in Expay Software Co, invest in a gambling-focused crypto token Dragon Coin (DRG), and buy 500 million shares in DNA (2002) Co, which he consequently did by transferring crypto to the siblings’ wallets."

https://cointelegraph.com/news/three-thai-siblings-accused-of-24-m https://cointelegraph.com/news/three-thaisiblings-accused-of-24-million-bitcoinillion-bitcoin-scam-p scam-p lead-not-guilty

List #

91

Date

11-13-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

2,800,000.00

Crypto Stolen

13,000 ETH

Type

Theft - Exit Scam

PureBit Exit Scam "On November 4, the group conducted an initial coin offering (ICO) to raise nearly $30 million using Ethereum (ETH) to build a cryptocurrency exchange...On November 13, as CCN reported, Pure Bit and its operators shut down all of their social media handles including KakaoTalk groups, kicking out investors in various public chat groups with the message “I’m sorry.”"

Source 1:

https://www.ccn.com/guilty-conscience-30m-crypto-exit-scam https://www.ccn.com/guilty-conscien ce-30m-crypto-exit-scam-in-south-korea-refunds-in-south-korea-refunds-vi vi ctims

Source 2:

https://ciphertrace.com/wp-content/uploads/ https://ciphertrace. com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/crypto_aml_report_2018q 2019/01/crypto_aml_report_2018q4.pdf 4.pdf

30

List #

92

Date

11-21-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

1,000,000.00

Crypto Stolen

Type Source 1:

Hack - Theft

93

Date

11-26-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

5,000,000.00

Crypto Stolen

Source 1:

Hack - Theft

Bulgaria Police Charge 3 With Crypto Hack "In its statement, the Prosecutor’s Office said that the investigation, which was first launched back in June of this year, is the first of its kind in both Bulgaria and Europe. The three people arrested appear to have been fairly sophisticated, with the prosecutor saying that they had exceptionally high “computer literacy skills,” which enabled them to steal the cryptocurrency. Those notebooks appear to indicate that the fraudsters were using a range of different accounts, with both real and fake users, to steal cryptocurrency."

https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/bulgarianhttps://www.financemagnates.com/crypt ocurrency/news/bulgarian-police-arrest-3-inpolice-arrest-3-in-55million-cryptocurrency-theft/

List #

94

Date

12-26-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

1,000,000.00

Crypto Stolen Type

"Remember that kid that got tortured by his friends in an attempt to steal his BTC about a month ago? Well, turns out he may have actually made his cryptocurrency fortune by stealing it from a Silicon Valley exec, after pulling an elaborate SIM-swapping scheme. Santa Clara investigators recently arrested Nicholas Truglia, a 21-year-old con man from New York, for removing $1 million in cryptocurrency from exchange accounts belonging to the Bay Area‘s richest, New York Post reports."

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/11/21/cry https://thenextweb.com /hardfork/2018/11/21/cryptocurrency-beatdown-vict ptocurrency-beatdown-victim-jailed/ im-jailed/

List #

Type

Nicholas Truglia SIM Swapping Hack

Theft Extortion

Exmo CEO Pays Ransom “ According According to Russian Russian and Ukrainian media media reports Pavel Lerner, Lerner, 40, was kidnapped while leaving his office in Kiev's Obolon district on 26 December. The reports said he was dragged into a black Mercedes-Benz by men wearing balaclavas.”

Source 1:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-42505261

Source 2:

https://www.ft.com/content/0b5e1cdc-ecc2-11e7-8713-513b1d7ca85a

Source 2:

https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-rocked-exmos-pavel-lerner-ki https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-rockedexmos-pavel-lerner-kidnapped-kiev-update-ransom dnapped-kiev-update-ransom -paid/

31

List #

95

Date

12-27-2018

Amt Stolen ($)

800,000.00

Crypto Stolen

Hack - Theft

Type

250 BTC

Electroneum Wallet Hack "“The hacker setup a whole bunch of malicious servers,” Reddit user u/normal_rc explained: “If someone's Electrum Wallet connected to one of those servers, and tried to send a BTC transaction, they would see an official-looking message telling them to update their Electrum Wallet, along with a scam URL.”"

Source 1:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Cry ptoCurrency/comments/a9yji3/electrum_wal a9yji3/electrum_wallet_hacked_20 let_hacked_20 0_btc_stolen_so_far/

Source 1:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/phishing-attack-on-electrum-wal https://cointelegraph.com/news/phishing-att ack-on-electrum-wallet-nets-hacker-almost let-nets-hacker-almost-1-million-in-hours-report

List #

96

Date

1-7-2019

Amt Stolen ($)

271,500.00

Crypto Stolen

40,000 ETC

Type

Hack - Theft

Source 1:

97

Date

1-15-2019


"“Gate.io's censor successfully blocked [the] attacker's transactions at the beginning and submitted them to [a] manual exam. Unfortunately, during the 51% attack, all the transactions looked valid and confirmed well on the blockchain..."

https://ethereumworldnews.com/cryptopia-hack-16-million-i https://ethereumworldnews.com/cryptopiahack-16-million-in-ethereum-eth-and-erc20-t n-ethereum-eth-and-erc20-t okens-stolen/

List #

Amt Stolen ($)

ETC 51% Gate.io Attack

Cryptopia Exchange ERC20 Hack

16,000,000.00 "The funds were taken from more than 76k different wallets, none of which 8 BTC +

were smart contracts. The thieves must have gained access to not one private key, but thousands of them. - Elementus"

Hack - Theft https://ethereumworldnews.com/cryptopia-hack-16-million-i https://ethereumworldnews.com/cryptopiahack-16-million-in-ethereum-eth-and-erc20-t n-ethereum-eth-and-erc20-t okens-stolen/

32

List #

98

Date

1-26-2019

Amt Stolen ($)

28,000.00

Crypto Stolen

8 BTC +

Type Source 1:

https://ethereumworldnews.com/crypto-hacker-scores-28600-after-hackhttps://ethereumworldnews.com/crypto-hack er-scores-28600-after-hack-of-bitcoin-exch of-bitcoin-exch ange/

99

Date

2-1-2019 5,000,000.00


Hack - Theft

100

Date

2-5-2019 145,000.00


Joel Ortiz SIM Swapping Hack "Authorities reportedly state that Ortiz is the first individual convicted of a crime for SIM swapping... SIM swapping is growing increasingly popular with criminals as a means to steal fiat, crypto, and even social media usernames and handles, which can subsequently be sold on a black market. The Instagram account “@t” reportedly sold for $40,000 in Bitcoin (BTC)."

https://cointelegraph.com/news/20-year-old-hacker-pleads-guilty-tohttps://cointelegraph.com/news/20-year-oldhacker-pleads-guilty-to-5-million-cryptoc 5-million-cryptocurr urr ency-theft

List #

Amt Stolen ($)

"The funds were taken from more than 76k different wallets, none of which were smart contracts. The thieves must have gained access to not one private key, but thousands of them. - Elementus"

Hack - Theft

List #

Amt Stolen ($)

LocalBitcoins Hack

Theft - Exit Scam

QuadrigaCX Bankruptcy "Citing a creditor protection filing from the Nova Scotia Supreme court, the Globe and Mail states that the firm has been unable to locate or access the funds since Cotten passed on Dec. 9, leading to a liquidity crisis at the exchange. QuadrigaCX filed for creditor protection in compliance with the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) on Feb. 1."

https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-exchange-quadrigacx-missing-145-m https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-exchangequadrigacx-missing-145-mln-after-dea ln-after-dea th-of-founder

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