Crypto Theft Incidents Timeline, Kyle S Gibson - Draft 2 Mar 19, 2019

Crypto Theft Incident Timeline, Draft 2 - @KyleSGibson (March 19, 2019)
List # 1
Allinvain Bitcointalk User Hack
Date 6-13-2011
Amt Stolen ($) 500,000.00 A user on BitcoinTalk going by "allinvain" submitted a new thread to the forum
claiming their Bitcoin wallet, held on a Windows computer, had been hacked
Crypto Stolen 25,000 BTC
for 25,000 BTC. This is commonly referred to the "first major loss owing to a
Type Hack - Theft Bitcoin hack."
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=16457.0
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/18/history-of-bitcoin-hacks-alternative-currency
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/06/17/bitcoin-the-first-500000-theft/#50ccfb2c29b3
List # 2
MT Gox Auditor Theft
Date 6-19-2011
Amt Stolen ($) 30,000.00 The first of two major hacks on the Mt Gox exchange. According to reports, a
"computer belonging to an auditor" was compromised, and the attackers were
Crypto Stolen 2000 BTC
able to "set the price of Bitcoin to one cent," then direct several accounts to
Theft - Exit buy and withdraw ~2000BTC, which to users of the exchange looked like a
Type Scam "flash crash."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox#Security_breach_and_invalid_addresses_(2011)
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/01/02/japanese-newspaper-makes-bold-claim-about
https://www.ledger.fr/2019/02/18/hack-flasback-the-mt-gox-hack-the-most-iconic-exchange-hack/
List # 3
Bitomart Exchange Wallet.dat File Is Deleted
Date 8-1-2011
Amt Stolen ($) 220,000.00 Poland-based Bitomat was allegedly the third largest Bitcoin exchange in the
world when they announced to their users that, during a server upgrade, they
Crypto Stolen 17000
had accidentally deleted a "wallet.dat" file, and thus locked away all of their
Glitch - Funds funds.
Type Locked
https://siliconangle.com/2011/08/01/third-largest-bitcoin-exchange-bitomat-lost-their-wallet-o
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2017/09/17/kim-nilsson-of-wizsec-how-the-bit
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cfaUyfnNdSEJ:https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitco
in/comments/7hmjdw/my_brother_killed_himself_because_of_btc/+&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
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List # 4
Date 8-8-2011 MyBitcoin Exchange Hack
Amt Stolen ($) 2,000,000.00 "Tom Williams" was the name given by the supposed operator of this Bitcoin
wallet and exchange service, which at the time of Tom's disappearance, "had
more deposits than the third largest Bitcoin exchange, Bitomat.pl." No
sightings or interviews with "Tom" are known, and the only explanation after
disappearing was an "Incident Report" alleging a hack. The service was
promoted by some "evangelists" such as Bruce Wagner, who claimed to have
Type Hack - Theft lost 25,000 BTC.
https://observer.com/2011/08/mybitcoin-spokesman-finally-comes-forward-what-did-you-think-we-did-aft
er-the-hack-we-got-shitfaced/
https://observer.com/2011/08/mybitcoin-disappeared-with-bitcoins/
https://www.ccn.com/newsflash-canadian-bitcoin-exchange-hacked-says-all-funds-are-gone
List # 5
Date 10-5-2011 Bitcoin7 Exchange Hack
Amt Stolen ($) 50,000.00 A notice sent by the operators of Bitcoin7 to their exchange's customer said
that their service had been the victim of a hack, one which "originated from
Russia and Eastern Europe," and as part of the investigation they would be
requiring such information from all their users as: a passport, bank account
numbers, utility bills. No further explanation of the "hack" or recovery process
Type Hack Theft has been offered.
https://siliconangle.com/2011/10/07/bitcoin7-hacked-funds-recovery-requires-sensitive-personal-informat
ion/
https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-exchange-thefts-forgotten/
List # 6
Date 3-2-2012 Linode Webhost Cloud Server Hack
Amt Stolen ($) 228,000.00 Linode, a webhosting service, was allegedly compromised in an attack which
saw "46,703 Bitcoin" stolen, the majority of which "belonged to customers of
Bitoinica," an exchange.
Type Hack - Theft
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/03/bitcoins-worth-228000-stolen-from-customers-of
-hacked-webhost/
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/thousands-of-bitcoins-stolen-in-a-hack-on-linode
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List # 7
Bitcoinica Hot Wallet Hack
Date 5-6-2012
Amt Stolen ($) 90,000.00 In their second incident of a hack or theft, Bitcoinica claimed a "a suspicious
Bitcoin transaction that doesn't seem to be initiated by any one of the
company owners" had drained their "online wallet."
Type Hack - Theft
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/05/14/bitcoin-exchange-gets-attacked-and-loses-cash-again/
https://news.8btc.com/analyst-mt-gox-lost-100000-more-bitcoins-apart-from-the-2-5-billion-hack
List # 8
Bitcoin Savings and Trust Ponzi Scheme
Date 7-2-2012
Amt Stolen ($) The Bitcoin Savings & Trust was a "virtual hedge fund" operated by an
account named "Pirateat40," which was shut down with a message from the
Crypto Stolen 150000
account, claiming "The decision was based on the general size and overall
Theft - Exit time required to manage the transactions."
Type Scam
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.msg1004558#msg1004558
https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/27/3271637/bitcoin-savings-trust-pyramid-scheme-shuts-down
List # 9
Bitcoinica Mt Gox Hack
Date 7-13-2012
Amt Stolen ($) 350,000.00 In Bitcoinica's third incident, they published another Bitcointalk thread
describing how their account had been "compromised," due to the "LastPass
password being a duplicate" of one used by a Mt Gox API service, which had
Type Hack - Theft been previously compromised.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoinica-stolen-from-again/
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List # 10
Bitfloor Exchange Hack
Date 9-4-2012
Amt Stolen ($) 240,000.00 In another hack announcement made on Bitcointalk, the proprietor of the
Bitfloor exchange said they "needed help" after their servers were
compromised and attackers were able to duplicate their keys and steal
Type Hack - Theft "almost all of the BTC."
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/09/06/bitcoin-exchange-floored-in-virtual-bank-robbery-250000-s
tolen-in-security-lapse/
List # 11
2012 Trojan Wallet Hack
Date 11-16-2012
Amt Stolen ($) A user going by mralbi on BitcoinTalk began a thread by saying "stupid as i
am i allowed some hacker to somehow install a trojan horse on my pc where i
stored some of my bitcoins. The hacker sent the bitcoins to the address:
Type Hack - Theft 1Q3KFL7Z1BTpUboDaU6Qj3t9xCXWpzNntS"
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=125641
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83794.0;all#post_toc_39
List # 12
Vircurex Exchange Hack
Date 1-11-2013
Amt Stolen ($) 50,000,000.00 Customers of the Vircurex exchange are still embroiled in suits to figure out
what happened to their lost funds. One suit alleges the exchange suffered
Crypto Stolen 1666
multiple un-reported hacks, and "made efforts to cover their tracks and create
impediments designed to deter accountholders from bringing suit to recover
Type Hack - Theft the Frozen Funds."
https://www.coindesk.com/former-customers-sue-vircurex-exchange-over-frozen-crypto-funds
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List # 13
BitMarket.eu Exit Scam
Date 2-14-2013
Amt Stolen ($) 400,000.00 Maciej Trebacz explained that he had no responsibility for the Bitmaret
exchange's lost funds because they were being held at Bitcoinica when they
were stolen. Their company also had funds lost when Polish Banks shut down
Theft - Exit their accounts.
Type Scam
https://www.ccn.com/bitmarket-bitcoin-exchange-loses-banking-connection-po
https://www.newsbtc.com/2016/10/28/bitmarket-eu-hack-may-link-linkedin-dropbox-hacking-incidents/
https://news.softpedia.com/news/dropbox-and-linkedin-hacker-most-likely-behind-bitmarket-eu-bitcoin-h
eist-509599.shtml
List # 14
BTCGuild Mining Pool Hack
Date 3-10-2013
Amt Stolen ($) 58,000.00 During a client upgrade in advance of a hardfork, the BTCGuild mining pool
were exposed to a vulnerability which allowed attackers to drain their hot
wallet.
Type Hack - Theft
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:O-KYgSyQ2w4J:https://nulltx.com/top-5-bitco
in-heists-of-2013/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
List # 15
Bitcoin Rain Exit Scam
Date 3-28-2013
Amt Stolen ($) Bitcoin Rain, a crypto hedge fund, was shut down by way of a BitcoinTalk
announcement by the owner, Leandro Cesar, who claimed his related
Crypto Stolen 2,150 Bitcoin
"Mercado Bitcoin" exchange had been hacked. This event has been
Theft - Exit compared to [8] Bitcoin Savings and Trust.
Type Scam
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List # 16
Just Dice Incident
Date 7-15-2013
Amt Stolen ($) 121,000.00 Chris Moore, developer for the gambling service "Just Dice," discovered a
flaw on his site which had allowed a user to make repeated withdrawals
without his balance being debited.
Type Hack - Theft
List # 17
Bitfunder and WeExchange Hack
Date 8-27-2013
Amt Stolen ($) 560,000.00 Jon E. Montroll, 37, plead guilty to US fraud charges related to two Bitcoin
exchanges he operated, Bitfunder and WeExchange. He admitted to "failing to
disclose to investors that hackers were able to exploit a flaw in the BitFunder
Type Hack - Theft code," as well as lying to investigators about it.
https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/head-hacked-bitcoin-exchange-pleads-guilty-to-us-charges-a-11247
List # 18
Canada Bitcoins Social Engineering Theft
Date 10-1-2013
Amt Stolen ($) 100,000.00 A hacker spoke with a representative for the Canada Bitcoins'
datacenter over online chat, and convinced them to rest their system
to "fail dafe mode," bypassing their security and allowing them to
Theft - Exit withdraw Bitcoins.
Type Scam
https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2014/11/paper-well-escalated-quickly-penny-stealing-malware
-multi-million-dollar-heists-quick-overview-bitcoin-bonanza-digital-era
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List # 19
Input.io Wallet Hack
Date 10-23-2013
Amt Stolen ($) 1,300,000.00 A BitcoinTalk user going by "TradeFortress" waited more than a week to let
the users of their "Bitcoin Bank" service, Input.io, know that their Bitcoins held
on the service had been stolen.
Type Hack - Theft
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/australian-bitcoin-bank-hacked-1m-stolen-20131108-hv2iv.html
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/11/26/bitcoin-online-bank-robbery-because-thats-where-the-mon
ey-is/
List # 20
GBL Exchange Exit Scam
Date 10-26-2013
Amt Stolen ($) 4,100,000.00 "Almost 1,000 people deposited around $4.1 million in Chinese Yuan"
into the GBL exchange; "attracted by inducements (savings) such as
fee waivers." Even though, the exchange hadn't received any financial
Theft - Exit services license. The owners absconded with the funds.
Type Scam
https://www.networkworld.com/article/2225793/software/chinese-bitcoin-exchange-vanishes-along-with-
bitcoins.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-missing-bitcoin-millions
List # 21
BIPS Payment Services Hack
Date 11-19-2013
Amt Stolen ($) 1,000,000.00 On Nov. 15, BIPS claims they were subject to a "massive DDoS" attack,
which was in preparation for a larger attack two days later, in which "several
layers of protection" were breached and "several wallets were compromised."
Type Hack - Theft The payment services company disclosed these events two days later.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=i6qiklm2v9d898h3qhd1a5q0r3&topic=252308.msg36450
43#msg3645043
https://99bitcoins.com/danish-bitcoin-platform-bips-hacked-1295-btc-stolen/
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List # 22
Sheep Marketplace Exit Scam
Date 11-21-2013
Amt Stolen ($) 6,000,000.00 Sheep Marketplace was a "Dark Web" exchange service. Its owner, Thomas
Jiřikovský, and his wife Eve Bartošová, are now known as being responsible
for the "largest exit scam in the history of the Dark Web."
Theft - Exit
Type Scam
https://news.bitcoin.com/darknet-market-operators-who-stole-40-thousand-btc-face-prison-time/
https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/04/21/sheep-marketplace-owner-indicted-face-years-prison/
List # 23
Picostocks Cold Wallet Hack
Date 11-29-2013
Amt Stolen ($) 6,000,000.00 In a post submitted to the /r/Bitcoin reddit forum, "Love_Eggs_and_Bacon" of
Picostocks announced they would be "down for a while," as their "hot wallet
and cold wallet account have been stolen." They said it was suspected there
Type Hack - Theft were insiders involved.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1rrnua/picostocks_hacked_even_cold_wallet_emptied/
List # 24
MT Gox Halts Trade Over Major Hack
Date 2-7-2014
Amt Stolen ($) 300,000,000.00 "7 February 2014 — MtGox halted all BTC withdrawals from the exchange,
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 Mt Gox’s insolvency after losing 744,408
BTC of customer funds (valued at over $2 billion USD at today’s prices) as
Type Hack - Theft well as 100,000 of its own bitcoins."
https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/mtgox-btc-e-and-the-missing-coins-a-living-timeline-of-the-greatest-cy
ber-crime-ever
https://www.ledger.fr/2019/02/18/hack-flasback-the-mt-gox-hack-the-most-iconic-exchange-hack/
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List # 25
Poloniex Withdrawal Hack
Date 3-4-2014
Amt Stolen ($) 1,000.00 A hacker allegedly found out that if you "place several withdrawals at the
same instant," the Poloniex exchange would process them as "valid insertions
into the database."
Type Hack - Theft
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=499580
https://www.coindesk.com/poloniex-claims-customers-repaid-following-march-bitcoin-hack
https://coinsutra.com/biggest-bitcoin-hacks/
List # 26
Flexcoin Hot Wallet Hack
Date 3-4-2014
Amt Stolen ($) 600,000.00 "The first Bitcoin bank," according to Flexcoin, was Flexcoin...even though
they were never technically a bank. They shut down after a "robbery" of their
hot wallets.
Type Hack - Theft
https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-bank-flexcoin-close-600000-bitcoin-theft
List # 27
PonziCoin Exit Scam
Date 3-9-2014
Amt Stolen ($) A nameless developer created a service, "PonziCoin," which ostensibly would
operate as a pyramid scheme, but it ended up operating like a simple exit
scam; nobody received any payouts.
Theft - Exit
Type Scam
https://techweez.com/2018/01/26/ponzicoin-crypto-scheme/
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List # 28
CryptoRush Hack
Date 3-11-2014
Amt Stolen ($) 800,000.00 "The guilt was starting to build up inside of me. I answered very few tickets the
week of the 16th. I was conflicted, but I worked at my full time job >40 hours
that week, so it kept my mind off of things a little. The issues continued. I kept
suggesting ways we could maybe get some BTC back, arbitrage, etc. We
didn’t even have enough funds for that. I wanted so bad for the exchange to
stay afloat, thinking “Maybe tomorrow will bring us back our volume!” But alas,
the problems with Zeit, and BTC withdrawals killed our volume. There was no
Type Hack - Theft coming back.”"
https://www.ccn.com/cryptorush-support-worker-leaks-inside-info
List # 29
Cryptsy Exchange Hack
Date 5-15-2014
Amt Stolen ($) 9,580,000.00 Like Mt. Gox, this "hack" was only divluged after months of customers
reporting issues with withdrawals. Now those creditors have been involved in
multiple lawsuits against the Cryptsy exchange.
Type Hack - Theft
https://www.coindesk.com/cryptsy-bankruptcy-millions-bitcoin-stolen
List # 30
Mintpal Exchange Exit Scam
Date 10-8-2014
Amt Stolen ($) 1,300,000.00 "Alex Green," or "Ryan Kennedy," bought the Mintpal exchange and allegedly
stole all of its customers funds, then was subsequently arrested in the US, but
on rape charges.
Theft - Exit
Type Scam
https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-exchange-thefts-forgotten/
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List # 31
Bitstamp Hot Wallet Hack
Date 1-4-2015
Amt Stolen ($) 5,000,000.00 In a statement, Bitstamp told its customers that their wallet system had been
compromised and some BTC had been stolen, but that it was a "small
fraction" of their total reserves. The A leaked document in July 2015 claimed
Theft - Exit the hack was the result of a successful phishing attempt on the exchange's
Type Scam employees.
https://www.coindesk.com/bitstamp-claims-roughly-19000-btc-lost-hot-wallet-hack
https://www.coindesk.com/unconfirmed-report-5-million-bitstamp-bitcoin-exchange
List # 32
796 Exchange Hack
Date 1-28-2015
Amt Stolen ($) 230,000.00 Hackers were able to, according to the exchange's owner, "compromise a
certain weakness" on the servers of 796, and make edits which redirected
customer deposits to a wallet besides their hot wallet.
Type Hack - Theft
https://cointelegraph.com/news/chinese-exchange-suffers-1000-btc-loss-in-uncertain-service-compromi
List # 33
MyCoin Exchange Ponzi Scheme
Date 2-9-2015
Amt Stolen ($) 8,000,000.00 Advertised as a High Yield Investment Product, MyCoin turned out to be a
simple exit scam which operated for a short time like a Ponzi. Victims invested
Crypto Stolen
an "average of $400,000," all so the proprietors could vanish.
Theft - Exit
Type Scam
https://www.newsbtc.com/2015/02/10/investors-bite-dust-hong-kong-central-bank-releases-statement-bit
coin/
https://bitcoinist.com/alleged-mycoin-scammers-arrested-taiwan/
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List # 34
BTER Cold Wallet Hack
Date 2-15-2015
Amt Stolen ($) 1,750,000.00 The website of the BTER exchange was altered to display a 4-line message
announcing "BTC got stolen" and a "720 BTC bounty for chasing it back." The
exchange had a similar event previously, but claimed to "negotiate for a partial
Type Hack - Theft return of those funds" (CoinDesk).
https://www.coindesk.com/bter-bitcoin-stolen-cold-wallet-hack
List # 35
Kipcoin Exchange Hack
Date 2-19-2015
Amt Stolen ($) 690,000.00 The wallet service Kipcoin offered "a 22% annualized interest, paid daily" and
said they were planning to launch a futures exchange, before they claimed on
the day before Chinese Lunar New Year that "their wallet servers were
Type Hack Theft hacked."
https://www.newsbtc.com/2015/02/19/chinese-bitcoin-exchange-kipcoin-shuts-claims-losing-3000-
List # 36
Evolution Marketplace Exit Scam
Date 3-18-2015
Amt Stolen ($) 1,200,000.00 Like [22] Sheep Marketplace, Evolution Marketplace was a Dark Web
exchange service whose owners "disappeared."
Theft - Exit
Type Scam
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/18/bitcoin-deep-web-evolution-exit-scam-12-
https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/2zfkee/admins_of_evolution_marketplace_th
https://www.kount.com/blog-against-fraud/frauding-a-fraudster
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List # 37
Bitfinex Hot Wallet Hack
Date 5-22-2015
Amt Stolen ($) 400,000.00 About 0.06% of the Bitfinex exchange's total holdings were allegedly stolen
from their hot wallet, a loss which the company "indicated it would absorb."
Bitfinex halted deposits for some time, and said they were conducting an
Type Hack - Theft investigation.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitfinex-hot-wallets-hacked-1400-bitcoin-may-stolen-1432326539/
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/warning-signs-timeline-tether-and-bitfinex-events/
https://www.hackread.com/bitcoin-exchange-bitfinex-hot-wallet-hacked/
List # 38
Bitpay Social Engineering Theft
Date 9-17-2015
Amt Stolen ($) 1,800,000.00 A hacker gained access to the email address for Bryan Krohn, CFO for Bitpay,
a payment processor. They spoke to Bitpay's CEO, Stephen Paid, and
executive chairman Tony Gallippi, convincing them to "authorize three
Theft - Exit payments totalling 5,000 BTC on 11th and 12th December, including one
Type Scam transaction from a wallet on the bitcoin exchange Bitstamp."
https://www.coindesk.com/bitpay-sues-insurer-after-losing-1-8-million-in-phishing-attack
List # 39
Shapeshift Exchange Hack
Date 4-7-2016
Amt Stolen ($) 200,000.00 Shapeshift claimed in the weeks following this theft that they were confident
an inside party was involved, which was corroborated by the firm brought in to
investigate, LedgerLabs. Shapeshift said they were filing civil suits.
Type Hack - Theft
https://info.shapeshift.io/blog/2016/04/19/blog-2016-04-19-timeline-shapeshift-hacking-incident/
http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/04/25/shapeshift-hack-simply-incredible/
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List # 40
Gatecoin Hack
Date 5-13-2016
Amt Stolen ($) 2,500,000.00 Gatecoin, a Hong Kong-based exchange for Ethereum-based "DAO," or
Decentralized Autonomous Organization, and other digital assets, claimed
their hot wallets had been hacked.
Type Hack - Theft
https://www.coindesk.com/gatecoin-2-million-bitcoin-ether-security-breach
List # 41
DAO Hack
Date 6-17-2016
Amt Stolen ($) 60,000,000.00 The team responsible for developing the DAO had allegedly written an
effective fix for the vulnerability which allowed for this incident to take place,
Crypto Stolen 3.6M ETH
before the hacker was able to drain ETH from their centralized structure.
Type Hack - Theft
https://www.coindesk.com/dao-attacked-code-issue-leads-60-million-ether-theft
http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/06/18/analy
List # 42
Bitfinex Security Breach
Date 8-2-2016
Amt Stolen ($) 72,000,000.00 Bitfinex said in an announcement on their exchange's blog that a "security
breach" required them to halt their service and "settle open margin positions,
associated financing, and/or collateral affected by the breach." One week
later, Bitfinex discounted its users' accounts by 36.067%, to account for the
"loss" from the "security breach." In compensation, BFX tokens were
distributed "equal to each customer's exact losses." They claimed to redeem
Type Hack - Theft 100% of BFX tokens in April, 2017.
http://blog.bitfinex.com/announcements/security-breach/
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/04/worlds-largest-bitcoin-dollar-exchange-robbed/
https://www.ccn.com/bitgo-claims-software-not-fault-bitfinex-hack
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/08/hacked-bitcoin-exchange-bitfinex-will-reduce-balances-by-36-to-distri
bute-losses-amongst-all-users/
https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/198
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List # 43
Bitcurex Exchanges hack
Date 2-17-2017
Amt Stolen ($) 50,000,000.00 Like [19], the owner of Bitcurex waited a week before disclosing a severe hack
to their customers. Their service was "one of the bigger" exchanges servicing
the European markets at the time of its closure.
Type Hack - Theft
https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcurex-forced-million-theft/
https://bitcoinist.com/bitcurex-owner-disappears-2300-btc/
List # 44
Zerocoin Glitch Hack
Date 2-17-17
Amt Stolen ($) 585,000.00 A hacker found an exploit in the source code for "Zerocoin" which allowed
them to "reuse his/her existing valid proofs to generate additional Zerocoin."
Crypto Stolen 370,000 ZCash
The bug was reportedly created with a single character.
Type Hack - Theft
https://thehackernews.com/2017/02/zcoin-zerocoin-typo.html
List # 45
Coinhoarder Phishing Scams
Date 2-24-2017
Amt Stolen ($) 1,800,000.00 "Cisco identified an attack pattern in which the threat actors behind the
operation would establish a "gateway" phishing link that would appear in
Crypto Stolen
search results among Google Ads. When searching for crypto-related
keywords such as "blockchain" or "bitcoin wallet," the spoofed links would
appear at the top of search results. When clicked, the link would redirect to a
Theft - Exit "lander" page and serve phishing content in the native language of the
Type Scam geographic region of the victim's IP address." -Talos Intelligence
https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/02/coinhoarder.html
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List # 46
Asian-European Currency Ponzi Scam
Date 4-24-2017
Amt Stolen ($) 680,000.00 "Suspect Xu," as described by authorities who charged him with fraud,
operated a "multi-layer marketing scheme" based on virtual currency.
Crypto Stolen
Theft - Exit
Type Scam
https://cointelegraph.com/news/digital-currency-scam-in-china-involved-47000-people
List # 47
Yapizon Exchange Hack
Date 4-26-2017
Amt Stolen ($) 7,600,000.00 Two details make this instance similar to [42]; like Bitfinex, the Yapizon
exchange claimed about a third of their funds had been stolen (37.08%); and,
they were docking each customer's balances relative to that loss, with an IOU
token being created in its place. Their token was called "FEI." *See [64]
source: South Korean officials have stated this specific incident may have had
Type Hack - Theft involvement by North Korea.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/67lamq/yapizon_exchange_korea_got_hacked_lost_38
https://cointelegraph.com/news/korean-bitcoin-exchange-yapizon-confirms-5-mln-hack-all-custome
List # 48
eBitz Exit Scam
Date 5-17-2017
Amt Stolen ($) 2,900,000.00 A thread on BitcoinTalk started by user "YIz" and mentioning another, "iudica,"
solicited information from victims of two alleged exit scams, Opair.co and
Ebitz.org, which they allege were "done by the same guy(s)."
Theft - Exit
Type Scam
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List # 49
QuadrigaCX Contract Error
Date 6-2-2017
Amt Stolen ($) A notice published to the /r/Ethereum reddit forum by QuadrigaCX, a
Canadian Bitcoin exchange started by Gerald Cotten, explained that due to an
Crypto Stolen 60,000 ETH
"irregularity" with their "ETH/ETC splitter contract," 60,000 Ether had become
Glitch - Funds "trapped," though their announcement contained no wallet addresses for
Type Locked proof.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6ettq5/statement_on_quadrigacx_ether_contract_error/
https://www.reddit.com/r/EthereumClassic/comments/6ewtun/quadrigacx_exchange_allegedly_lo
List # 50
VERI ICO Hack
Date 6-26-2017
Amt Stolen ($) 8,000,000.00 Founder Reggie Middleton told his ICO participants that, in the week following
the beginning of selling VERI tokens, 36,000 of them were stolen from
Crypto Stolen
Veritaseum and sold on the decentralized exchange EtherDelta. CoinDesk
noted that in this time, VERI accounted for "80%" of the DEX's volume for
Type Hack - Theft Ether trades.
https://www.coindesk.com/veritaseum-founder-claims-8-million-ico-token-stolen
List # 51
Bitthumb Hack and PII Leak
Date 6-29-2017
Amt Stolen ($) 31,000,000.00 Both won and personal information belonging to "30,000 users" was allegedly
stolen by hackers from the servers of Bitthumb, a Korean crypto exchange.
Crypto Stolen
*See [64] source. South Korean officials indicated this may have had
Type Hack - Theft involvement by North Korea.
https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/fourth-largest-bitcoin-exchange-bithumb-hacked-for-billions-of-won
http://blog.buildout.com/bitcoin-server-hacked-future-of-blockchain-in-cre/
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List # 52
ClassicEtherWallet DNS Hack
Date 6-29-2017
Amt Stolen ($) Like [18], this was a social engineering hack. The hacker "convinced support
staff at a web hosting provider" to grant them access to the official domain of
the ClassicEtherWallet service. They swapped the deposit address on the site
for their own, and for a period of about 48 hours users were sending ETH
Type Hack - Theft directly to the hacker.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/classic-ether-wallet-hacked-users-report-massive-lo
List # 53
AlphaBay Exit Scam
Date 7-4-2017
Amt Stolen ($) 4,000,000.00 Like [22] and [36]; AlphaBay was an escrow system for the Dark Web which
suddenly went offline, leading to a 100% loss for any users with funds held on
Crypto Stolen
the service. NYMag refers to this incident as "possible the largest exit scam in
Theft - Exit histyr
Type Scam
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/alphabay-exit-scam-may-be-the-biggest-one-yet.html
List # 54
CoinDash ICO Cryptojack
Date 7-18-2017
Amt Stolen ($) 7,000,000.00 "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
Type Hack - Theft the attacker."
http://fortune.com/2017/07/18/ethereum-coindash-ico-hack/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker-returns-20000-eth-stolen-during-coindash-ico/
https://blog.coindash.io/20-000-eth-were-sent-from-the-hacker-address-back-to-coindash-product-launc
h-stay-on-schedule-12d2c75c42d5
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Parity Wallet Breach
Date 7-19-2017
Amt Stolen ($) 30,000,000.00 "As reported by the startup, the issue is the result of a bug in a specific
multi-signature contract known as wallet.sol. Data suggests the issue was
mitigated, however, as 377,000 ethers that were potentially vulnerable to the
Type Hack - Theft issue were recovered by white hat hackers."
https://www.coindesk.com/30-million-ether-reported-stolen-parity-wallet-breach
List # 56
BTC-e Exit Scam
Date 7-25-2017
Amt Stolen ($) BTC-e was an exchange widely believed to have been run by Alexander
Vinnik. However, "according to Pawel Kusowski, CEO of Coinfirm, right after
(Alexander's) arrest, 66,000 Bitcoins" were sent from accounts associated
with BTC-e through "mixer" services. Vinnik was arrested in Greece, and
"faces accusations of leading a money laundering operation estimated at
Theft - Exit around $4 bln, and it is also presumed that Alexander took part in the MtGox
Type Scam hack."
https://cointelegraph.com/news/tracing-66000-bitcoins-what-we-should-learn-from-btc-e-story
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/press-release/file/984661/download
List # 57
Enigma ICO Pre-Sale Identity Theft Scam
Date 8-21-2017
Amt Stolen ($) 500,000.00 Sent to me from Enigma: "There was a social account compromised three
weeks before token sale. People were victimized by scammers who posted a
fake link for 'presale contributions.' We took back control of the account within
the hour, but $500k in ETH and usd was already sent to the address. We took
Theft - Social responsibility for the security compromise and recompensed everyone hurt in
Engineering the scam attempt."
Type Hack
https://www.coindesk.com/ico-scammers-steal-500k-phony-enigma-project-pre-sale-launch
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/24/enigma-refund/
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List # 58
Parity Frozen Wallets Bug
Date 11-6-2017
Amt Stolen ($) "I accidentally killed it," is how GitHub user "devopps199" announced to the
users of the Parity service they had discovered, and "triggered," a bug, which
in effect froze thousands of user wallets which were holding over 500,000
Glitch - Funds ETH, and were using the "multi-sig" function.
Type Locked
https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/issues/6995
https://medium.com/new-alchemy/a-short-history-of-smart-contract-hacks-on-ethereum-1a30020b5fd
https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-client-bug-freezes-user-funds-fallout-remains-uncertain
https://etherscan.io/address/0x863df6bfa4469f3ead0be8f9f2aae51c91a907b4
List # 59
Tether Critical Announcement
Date 11-21-2017
Amt Stolen ($) 30,950,010.00 On a new page on Tether's website, the stablecoin company announced to its
users that funds were removed from their own "Treasury Wallet" by an
Crypto Stolen 30M USDT
"external attacker," but that "As Tether is the issuer of the USDT managed
asset, we will not redeem any of the stolen tokens(...)". The ~30m USDT were
"Frozen"; however, there is no known proof of any Tether customer having
ever redeemed a single USDT for USD from the company. *Source 3: a
Type Hack - Theft possible connection between this, and [31].
https://tether.to/tether-critical-announcement/
https://www.ccn.com/tether-treasury-hacked-31-million-flagged-as-not-redeemable
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7ehseb/tether_was_hacked_by_the_same_person_who_hac
ked/
List # 60
South Korea Shuts Down Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme
Date 11-22-2017
Amt Stolen ($) 38,000,000.00 "Middle-aged investors" were "lured" into a Ponzi scheme, according to the
Jeonbuk Iksan police department and cybersecurity agency. They arrested
Crypto Stolen
seven men in connection with the scam. "During interrogation, Jang, the
operator of the ponzi scheme, claimed that the group never intended to run a
multi-million dollar scam at the beginning. The group established a bitcoin
investment firm initially to assist investors in investing in the cryptocurrency
Theft - Exit market. But, over time, as the business grew, the group decided to abuse its
Type Scam clientbase by alluring investors into a scam."
https://www.ccn.com/38-million-south-korean-bitcoin-scam-group-arrested
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Bitcoin Gold Wallet Repository Hack
Date 11-26-2017
Amt Stolen ($) 3,000,000.00 According to Reddit user "Uejji," the website for "Bitcoin Gold,"
mybtgwallet.com, was storing user passwords "in ase 64 and stored it on the
Crypto Stolen
website cookie, which was later transmitted to Google There, the scammer
Type Hack - Theft was free to decode it and steal the person's funds."
https://www.ccn.com/hackers-infiltrate-official-bitcoin-gold-wallet-repository
https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-gold-wallet-scam-nets-fraudsters-3-2-million-after-stealing-users-private-ke
ys
List # 62
NiceHash Exchange hack
Date 12-6-2017
Amt Stolen ($) 60,000,000.00 Users of the Nicehash mining pool service began to discuss on Reddit their
missing funds from internal wallets stored on the site a few hours before the
company made an announcement explaining, there has been a security
breach...our payment system was compromised and the contents of the
Type Hack - Theft NiceHash Bitcoin wallet have been stolen."
https://www.reddit.com/r/NiceHash/comments/7i0s6o/official_press_release_statement_by_nicehash/
https://cointelegraph.com/news/mining-service-nicehash-hacked-60-million-in-user-funds-stolen
List # 63
Bitcoin Platinum Exit Scam
Date 12-10-2017
Amt Stolen ($) unknown "Investors in the local cryptocurrency exchange market are outraged over
Bitcoin Platinum, an alleged scam created by a South Korean
Crypto Stolen
teenager."..."The Twitter handle @bitcoinplatinum, the official account of the
Bitcoin Platinum project has advertised the project, as a hard fork of the
Bitcoin Blockchain."..."However, the Twitter account has not provided the
Theft - Exit public with any information about supporters, developers, investors and/or
Type Scam miners."
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-platinum-created-by-south-korean-teenager-as-a-scam-local-mar
ket-erupts
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Youbit Exchange Hack
Date 12-19-2017
Amt Stolen ($) unknown Youbit was previously hacked, when they were known as "Yapizon" [47].
Immediately following this incident, their exchange declared bankruptcy, and
Crypto Stolen
said to minimize losses they would "Seek to pare losses by tapping insurance
funds and selling a stake in the exchange." Read the CoinDesk source for
Type Hack - Theft details on possible North Korea tie to their first hack.
https://www.coindesk.com/south-korean-bitcoin-exchange-declare-bankruptcy-hack
List # 65
RegalCoin Ponzi Stops Trading
Date 12-25-2017
Amt Stolen ($) unknown RegalCoin was an ICO and High Yield Investment scheme which operated
during the same time as Bitconnect.
Crypto Stolen
Theft - Exit
Type Scam
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2645149.0;all
https://steemit.com/scam/@cryptick/regal-coin-the-next-bitconnect-ponzi-scam
List # 66
ATT Customer Claims Sim Jacking
Date 1-7-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 23,800,000.00 Michael Terpin is still suing AT&T over a theft he claims was able to be carried
out because hackers spoofed, or swapped, his SIM card (a common method
Crypto Stolen unknown
of bank- and crypto-fraud...).
Type Hack - Theft
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/15/17695132/att-sued-over-lost-cryptocurrency-sim-swap-theft
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BlackWallet Hack
Date 1-14-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 400,000.00 "According to cybersecurity researcher Kevin Beaumont, the attacker hijacked
BlackWallet’s domain name system (DNS) server over the weekend, adding a
Crypto Stolen 670,000 XLM
piece of code which transferred any deposits of 20 or more lumens into
Type Hack - Theft another wallet." - CoinDesk
https://www.coindesk.com/400k-hacker-makes-off-with-stellar-lumens-in-blackwallet-theft
List # 68
Bitconnect Shut Down
Date 1-16-2018
Amt Stolen ($) unknown Investigations are still ongoing into the leadership of Bitconnect and their
affiliated enterprises, which span the globe. Bitconnect shut down their high
Crypto Stolen
interest loan services, including the payouts for referrals / commissions,
Theft - Exit because of an order given by the Texas State Securities Board.
Type Scam
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/01/16/bitconnect-shut-down-closed/
List # 69
Benebit Exit Scam
Date 1-23-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 2,700,000.00 The Benebit platform was supposed to resemble a customer loyalty program,
but investors in the ICO soon realized it was a simple exit scam. Doctored
Crypto Stolen
photos of their non-existent team, and deleted social profiles, were just some
Theft - Exit of the clues.
Type Scam
https://news.bitcoin.com/benebit-ico-runner-2-7-million-investor-funds/
https://cointelegraph.com/news/dont-believe-the-hype-the-five-largest-ico-exit-scams-expert-take
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List # 70
Coincheck Exchange Hack
Date 1-26-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 400,000.00 Hackers were somehow able to make copies of the private key for
Coincheck's hot wallets, and in just a few transactions, steal thousands in
Crypto Stolen 500M NEM
customer funds from the Japanese exchange. The employees reported the
Type Hack - Theft theft to the FSA and police the same day, and made a public apology.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/cryptocurrencies-drop-after-japanese-exchange-h
alts-withdrawals
https://cointelegraph.com/news/coincheck-stolen-534-mln-nem-were-stored-on-low-security-hot-wallet
List # 71
Experty ICO Scam
Date 1-29-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 150,000.00 Real participants of the Experty ICO started receiving believable, fake emails
purporting to have details for how to purchase "Pre-ICO" EXY tokens. Some
Crypto Stolen
users on Twitter claimed it looked like an "inside job," but no proof or further
Social explanation has been given.
Engineering
Type Hack - Theft
https://cryptonews.com/news/experty-ico-hacked-data-leaked-usd-150k-stolen-1109.htm
List # 72
Bee Token ICO Scam
Date 2-1-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 920,000.00 Like [71], ICO participants were sent emails which were spoofing the Bee
Token's employees, offering details about a "pre-sale," but any ETH sent to
Crypto Stolen 890 ETH
the provided addresses were stolen.
Theft - Exit
Type Scam
https://www.coindesk.com/bee-token-phishing-scam
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List # 73
Seele ICO Insider Hack
Date 2-4-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 1,800,000.00 Like [71] and [72], but perpetrated on Telegram. Seele support staff were
impersonated, in order to trick would-be investors into sending ETH to a fraud
address.
Theft - Exit
Type Scam
https://cointelegraph.com/news/scammers-steal-over-18-mln-by-posing-as-admins-of-steele-ico
https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/cant-even-trust-admins-now-alleged-employees
-seele-steal-2-million/
List # 74
Bitgrail NANO Hack
Date 2-11-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 120,000,000.00 Like nearly these incidents, reports about this Bitgrail hack are
conflicting. Francesco Firano, owner of the exchange, says he caught
Crypto Stolen 170M NANO
the "hack" early and contacted NANO to have the transactions
reversed; but others say it was him, or someone working for him, who
Type Hack - Theft caused the loss.
https://bitcoinist.com/bitgrail-cryptocurrency-exchange-hacked-170-million-nano-allegedly-stolen/
List # 75
BTC Global Ponzi Scheme
Date 3-1-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 50,000,000.00 BTC Global was a scheme ran by a user going as "Steve Twain"; they paid
out "inconsistent" weekly installments to the victims, before disappearing with
Crypto Stolen
the bulk of the deposits.
Theft - Exit
Type Scam
https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-01-50-million-crytocurrency-scam-cripples-south-
african-investors/
https://www.coindesk.com/south-african-investor-makes-off-50m-in-crypto-scam
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GainBitcoin India Ponzi Scam
Date 4-8-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 300,000,000.00 "Bharadwaj, along with his associates had started the multilevel marketing
scheme and would conduct seminars to lure victims into investing in Bitcoin,
Crypto Stolen
with assurances of large financial gains. He took help of Pankaj Ladakhiya, a
Theft - Exit motivational speaker, who would conduct seminars in India and abroad.
Type Scam Bhardwaj stopped paying returns to investors and fled in January."
https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-enforcement-directorate-registers-first-case-in-gain
https://www.coingdp.com/news/is-there-a-link-between-bitconnect-and-gainbitcoin-scams-crypto
https://behindmlm.com/companies/451-999-bitcoin-recovered-from-gain-bitcoin-scammers/
List # 77
Sailesh Bhatt Alleged Extortion
Date 4-10-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 1,300,000.00 Sailesh Bhatt, a Bitcoin broker, said he was kidnapped by men who came to
his house in police vehicles, then forced him to send them Bitcoin.
Theft -
Type Extortion
https://cointelegraph.com/news/india-police-officers-beat-exhorted-200-btc-from-businessman-local-s
https://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/cryptokidnapping-gujarat-style-or-how-to-lose-3-bn
List # 78
iFan Ponzi Scheme
Date 4-12-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 650,000,000.00 Modern Tech, a Vietnamese IT company, is alleged to have also operated
"iFan," a ponzi scheme which was a registered investment company in
Crypto Stolen
Singapore. They promised "at least 48%" returns per month, which they
Theft - Exit quickly started to pay out in their own currency, iFan Coins, before stopping all
Type Scam payments.
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/business/vietnamese-investors-fall-for-650-mln-cryptocurrency-sc
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List # 79
Coinsecure Exchange Hack
Date 4-13-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 3,300,000.00 Coinsecure blamed this hack on a "rogue employee," Dr. Amitabh Saxena,
who they told investigators was "making a false story to divert our attention
and he might have a role to play in this entire incident.” They say he made
certain operations to distribute Bitcoin Gold (BTG) in an online environment,
Type Hack - Theft which exposed their private keys.
https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-exchange-names-security-officer-suspect-3-3-million-theft
List # 80
MyEtherWallet DNS Hack
Date 4-24-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 152,000.00 "Anyone that got their keys into this has had their funds transferred to
http://etherscan.io/address/0x1d50588C0aa11959A5c28831ce3DC5F1D3120
d29" Somehow, a hacker was able to manipulate a Google DNS to "resole the
domain" for the MyEtherWallet service to a "bad server," which was able to
Type Hack - Theft steal users' private keys and extract funds.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/8ek86t/warning_myetherwalletcom_highjacked_on_googl
e/
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/09/myetherwallet-hit-by-attack-hola/
List # 81
Taylor Trading Crypto ICO Hack
Date 5-23-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 1,500,000.00 The "entire amount" which Taylor Trading Crypto raised in their ICO, selling
TAY tokens, was stolen by a hacker. Well, not all of it: "The only tokens that
were not stolen are the ones from the Founders’ and Advisors’ pools, because
Type Hack - Theft there’s a vesting contract making them inaccessible for now.”
https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/05/23/taylor-crypto-trading-ico-hacked-1-5-million-worth-eth
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Syndicate Wallet ICO Hack
Date 6-5-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 10,000,000.00 "involved a Japanese syndicate that had gathered participants for Shopin's
Token Generation Event using a hot MyEtherWallet storage wallet containing
Crypto Stolen ? ETH
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
Type Hack - Theft credentialed access." -PRNewswire
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/japanese-syndicate-wallet-hacked-10-million-usd-reported-
missing-300660484.html?tc=eml_cleartime
List # 83
Coinrail Exchange Hack
Date 6-10-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 40,000,000.00 Decentralized exchanges IDEX and EtherDelta were allegedly used, or
attempted to be used, to launder the stolen ERC-20 tokens from the Coinrail
exchange. The service, for whatever reason, did not originally disclose how
Type Hack - Theft much was stolen, or even which currencies.
https://www.coindesk.com/coinrail-exchange-hacked-loses-possibly-40-million-in-cryptos
List # 84
Bancor Hack
Date 7-9-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 23,500,000.00 Like [83], Pundi X's "NPXS" tokens were stolen in this incident. Bancor said "a
wallet used to upgrade some smart contracts was compromised."
Type Hack - Theft
https://twitter.com/Bancor/status/1016420621666963457
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/10/bancor-loses-23-5m/
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List # 85
KICKICO Security Breach
Date 7-26-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 7,700,000.00 Their announcement: "On July 26 at 9:04 (UTC) KICKICO has experienced a
security breach, which resulted in the attackers gaining access to the account
Crypto Stolen 700M KICK
of the KICK smart contract — tokens of the KICKICO platform. The team
learned about this incident after the complaints of several victims, who did not
Type Hack - Theft find tokens worth 800 thousand dollars in their wallets."
https://medium.com/@kickico/kickico-security-breach-issue-under-control-all-kickcoins-will-be-returned-e
be65a491dec
https://www.ccn.com/another-ico-hacked-kickico-loses-8-million-after-smart-contract-breach
List # 86
OneCoin Ponzi scheme
Date 9-5-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 400,000,000.00 "OneCoin was a multi-level marketing company that tricked investors into
buying into what they believed to be a legitimate investment. After the
Crypto Stolen
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 $400 million of funds stolen from
Theft - Exit defrauded investors—was used to purchase a massive mansion for Scott and
Type Scam his family in Massachusetts."
https://www.scribd.com/document/397996997/Mark-Scott
https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/onecoin-crypto-scam-fraudster-gets-indicted-on-400-million-money-la
undering-charge/
http://kusetukset.blogspot.com/2018/10/onecoin-d-day-8th-october-2018.html
List # 87
Zaif Exchange Hack
Date 9-20-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 60,000,000.00 "The licensed exchange, called Zaif, is operated by the Tech Bureau. It said
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 $60
million in bitcoin, bitcoin cash, and MonaCoin. That being said, the exact
Type Hack - Theft amount of bitcoin cash stolen remains unknown."
https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-exchange-zaif-hacked-in-60-million-6000-bitcoin-theft
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List # 88
SpankChain ICO Hack
Date 10-8-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 40,000.00 "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
Type Hack - Theft being deposited into the payment channels smart contract."
https://www.coindesk.com/spankchain-loses-40k-in-hack-due-to-smart-contract-bug
List # 89
William Kopko Ransom
Date 10-15-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 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
Crypto Stolen
American businessman was kidnapped in the Central American country.
Kopko’s family paid a ransom of nearly $950,000 in bitcoin which was
Theft - demanded shortly after he disappeared. However, Kopko, who owns the
Type Extortion online gambling platform 5Dimes, was never released and is still missing."
https://www.ccn.com/1-million-in-bitcoin-ransom-paid-american-in-costa-rica-still-missing
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610803/true-scale-of-bitcoin-ransomware-extortion-revealed/
List # 90
Australia XRP Hack
Date 10-25-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 450,000.00 "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
Crypto Stolen 100,000 XRP
days in mid-January. When he regained control of the account and checked
the activity, he noticed his cryptocurrency account had also been
Type Hack - Theft compromised leaving almost a zero balance."
https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/investing/woman-arrested-over-450000-crypto-theft/news-stor
y/17f2c4d0a5cb83b31279505255280bbf
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MapleChange Exchange Exit Scam
Date 10-28-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 6,000,000.00 "Due to a bug, some people have managed to withdraw all the funds from our
exchange. We are in the process of a thorough investigation for this. We are
extremely sorry that it has to come to end like this. Until the investigation is
Theft - Exit over, we cannot refund anything."
Type Scam
https://bitcoinist.com/canada-maplechange-exit-scam/
https://blog.saturn.network/list-of-documented-exchange-hacks/#exchange_hacks_2018
List # 92
Oyster Protocol CEO Exit Scam
Date 10-29-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 300,000.00 "Earlier today, it was discovered that the transferDirector function was utilized
on the Oyster Protocol token contract. This allowed the new director to
Crypto Stolen
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
Theft - Exit ~$300,000 in funds prior to us being able to shut down trading and
Type Scam withdrawals on KuCoin."
https://medium.com/@bill_26126/oyster-update-b813390ce10e
http://cryptocenternews.com/2018/10/oyster-protocol-founder-exit-scams-steals-300000-from-ico-con
List # 93
Dragon Coin Exit Scam
Date 11-7-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 2,400,000.00 "During the hearings, Thai prosecutors accused the three defendants and six
accomplices of defrauding 21-year-old Finnish investor Aamai Otava
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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
Theft - Exit Dragon Coin (DRG), and buy 500 million shares in DNA (2002) Co, which he
Type Scam consequently did by transferring crypto to the siblings’ wallets."
https://cointelegraph.com/news/three-thai-siblings-accused-of-24-million-bitcoin-scam-plead-not-guilty
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List # 94
PureBit Exit Scam
Date 11-13-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 2,800,000.00 "On November 4, the group conducted an initial coin offering (ICO) to raise
nearly $30 million using Ethereum (ETH) to build a cryptocurrency
exchange...On November 13, as CCN reported, Pure Bit and its operators
shut down all of their social media handles including KakaoTalk groups,
Theft - Exit kicking out investors in various public chat groups with the message “I’m
Type Scam sorry.”"
https://www.ccn.com/guilty-conscience-30m-crypto-exit-scam-in-south-korea-refunds-victims
https://ciphertrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/crypto_aml_report_2018q4.pdf
List # 95
Nicholas Truglia SIM Swapping Hack
Date 11-21-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 1,000,000.00 "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
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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 $1
million in cryptocurrency from exchange accounts belonging to the Bay Area‘s
Type Hack - Theft richest, New York Post reports."
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/11/21/cryptocurrency-beatdown-victim-jailed/
List # 96
Bulgaria Police Charge 3 With Crypto Hack
Date 11-26-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 5,000,000.00 "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
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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
Type Hack - Theft different accounts, with both real and fake users, to steal cryptocurrency."
https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/bulgarian-police-arrest-3-in-5-million-cryptocurr
ency-theft/
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List # 97
Exmo CEO Pays Ransom
Date 12-26-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 1,000,000.00 “According to Russian and Ukrainian media reports Pavel Lerner, 40, was
kidnapped while leaving his office in Kiev's Obolon district on 26 December.
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The reports said he was dragged into a black Mercedes-Benz by men wearing
Type balaclavas.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-42505261
https://www.ft.com/content/0b5e1cdc-ecc2-11e7-8713-513b1d7ca85a
https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-rocked-exmos-pavel-lerner-kidnapped-kiev-update-ransom-paid/
List # 98
Electroneum Wallet Hack
Date 12-27-2018
Amt Stolen ($) 800,000.00 "“The hacker setup a whole bunch of malicious servers,” Reddit user
u/normal_rc explained: “If someone's Electrum Wallet connected to one of
Crypto Stolen Hack - Theft
those servers, and tried to send a BTC transaction, they would see an
official-looking message telling them to update their Electrum Wallet, along
Type 250 BTC with a scam URL.”"
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/a9yji3/electrum_wallet_hacked_200_btc_stolen_so
_far/
https://cointelegraph.com/news/phishing-attack-on-electrum-wallet-nets-hacker-almost-1-million-in-hours
-report
List # 99
ETC 51% Gate.io Attack
Date 1-7-2019
Amt Stolen ($) 271,500.00 "“Gate.io's censor successfully blocked [the] attacker's transactions at the
beginning and submitted them to [a] manual exam. Unfortunately, during the
Crypto Stolen 40,000 ETC
51% attack, all the transactions looked valid and confirmed well on the
Type Hack - Theft blockchain..."
https://ethereumworldnews.com/cryptopia-hack-16-million-in-ethereum-eth-and-erc20-tokens-stolen/
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List # 100
Cryptopia Exchange ERC20 Hack
Date 1-15-2019
Amt Stolen ($) 16,000,000.00 "The exchange that was affected was the New Zealand based Cryptopia. The
exchange has since been on maintenance as the team at Cryptopia continues
Crypto Stolen 8 BTC +
to assess the damage and losses made during the hack. They are also
Type Hack - Theft collaborating with New Zealand Authorities to bring the criminals to justice."
https://ethereumworldnews.com/cryptopia-hack-16-million-in-ethereum-eth-and-erc20-tokens-stolen/
List # 101
LocalBitcoins Hack
Date 1-26-2019
Amt Stolen ($) 28,000.00 "The funds were taken from more than 76k different wallets, none of which
were smart contracts. The thieves must have gained access to not one private
Crypto Stolen 8 BTC +
key, but thousands of them. - Elementus"
Type Hack - Theft
https://ethereumworldnews.com/crypto-hacker-scores-28600-after-hack-of-bitcoin-exchange/
List # 102
Joel Ortiz SIM Swapping Hack
Date 2-1-2019
Amt Stolen ($) 5,000,000.00 "Authorities reportedly state that Ortiz is the first individual convicted of a
crime for SIM swapping... SIM swapping is growing increasingly popular with
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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
Type Hack - Theft Instagram account “@t” reportedly sold for $40,000 in Bitcoin (BTC)."
https://cointelegraph.com/news/20-year-old-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-5-million-cryptocurrency-theft
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List # 103
QuadrigaCX Bankruptcy
Date 2-5-2019
Amt Stolen ($) 145,000.00 "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
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funds since Cotten passed on Dec. 9, leading to a liquidity crisis at the
Theft - Exit exchange. QuadrigaCX filed for creditor protection in compliance with the
Type Scam Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) on Feb. 1."
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-exchange-quadrigacx-missing-145-mln-after-death-of-founder
List # 104
CoinMama PII Leak
Date 2-23-2019
Amt Stolen ($) "The official statement of the exchange disclosed that 450,000 email
addresses and passwords were leaked in a massive global hacking attack
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involving 24 websites and some 747 million records."
Type Hack - PII
https://www.ccn.com/breaking-major-crypto-brokerage-coinmama-hacked-450000-users-affected-in-mas
sive-worldwide-breach
List # 105
Bitstrades ICO Exit Scam
Date 2-27-2019
Amt Stolen ($) 230,000.00 According to the FIR, the accused took 190 investors on tours to Bangkok and
Singapore to gain their trust. The police suspects many of these investors
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could have been duped by Bitstrades, but are hesitating to come forward.
“[The] majority of investors who lost money in the racket are yet to come
forward. We hope that following the registration of the complaint, they will
provide details of cheating about the accused to [the crime department],” an
investigating officer told TOI. The discovery of Bitstrades as a pyramid
scheme has highlighted the lack of due diligence in the cryptocurrency
Type Hack - Theft industry.
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/02/27/scam-ico-advertised-on-coinmarketcap-busted-by-police-in-
india/
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List # 106
Coinomi Wallet Google Authentication Vulnearbility
Date 2-27-2019
Amt Stolen ($) 70,000.00 "According to cryptocurrency investor Warith Al Mawali, he has lost all
of his life savings in the tune of $60,000 to $70,000 on Coinomi, a
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widely utilized crypto wallet on Android. In a detailed report, Mawali
claimed that a critical vulnerability found on the wallet led to the loss of
Type Hack - Theft user funds as it compromised the private key of his wallet."
https://www.ccn.com/investor-lost-70k-life-savings-critical-crypto-wallet-vulnerability-coinomi
https://www.ccn.com/38-million-south-korean-bitcoin-scam-group-arrested
List # 107
My Big Coin Exit Scam
Date 2-28-2019
Amt Stolen ($) 6,000,000.00 Randall Crater was nabbed in Florida on Wednesday for his part in
persuading investors that the digital dosh was backed by real gold coins.
Crypto Stolen
Twenty-eight of them handed over a total of $6m – an average of $215,000 –
Theft - Exit to fund the business, having been told there was a total of $300m in gold
Type Scam behind the operation.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/28/cryptocurrency_owner_arrested/
List # 108 AUSTRAC Shuts Down Two Exchanges For Drug

Date 3-8-2019 Money Laundering
Amt Stolen ($) 2,000,000.00 Two Australian cryptocurrency exchanges have been suspended by
AUSTRAC after a ‘key member’ involved in the businesses was arrested
Crypto Stolen
during Australian Federal Police raids across Melbourne yesterday."
Theft - Exit
Type Scam
https://micky.com.au/two-australian-bitcoin-exchanges-shut-down-following-arrest-of-key-executive/
https://www.afp.gov.au/news-media/media-releases/police-operation-nets-33kgs-drugs-two-arrested
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List # 109
Morgan Rockcoons Bitcointopia Fraud
Date 3-8-2019
Amt Stolen ($) 45,000.00 "A bitcoin entrepreneur who pitched an elaborate vision for a
cryptocurrency Utopia in the Nevada high desert pleaded guilty to wire
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fraud in San Diego federal court this week, admitting he sold land he
Theft - Exit never owned to investors."
Type Scam
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-cryptocurrency-guilty-plea-20190308-story.html
List # 110
CrashDoge Withholds Withdrawls
Date 3-10-2019
Amt Stolen ($) 6,000,000.00 ChaboJ on Reddit: "CrashDoge, CrashingBitcoin and CrashingCrypto
are GIANT SCAMS. They stole $8,000 of my money. STAY AWAY...I
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recently went on CrashDoge.com to try my luck. I am a gambling
Theft - Exit YouTuber with a channel called StackGambler. I deposited 5,000
Type Scam Dogecoins with the intent of making 500,000 Dogecoins."
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/azh66t/crashdoge_crashingbitcoin_and_cras
List # 111
Bitcoin ATM Double-Spenders
Date 3-12-2019
Amt Stolen ($) 2,000,000.00 "two Australian cryptocurrency exchanges have been suspended by
AUSTRAC after a ‘key member’ involved in the businesses was arrested
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during Australian Federal Police raids across Melbourne yesterday."
Type Hack - Theft
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-police-bitcoin-fraud-investigatio
https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-atm-double-spenders-police-need-help-identifying-four-criminals
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List # 112
Monacoin Hack
Date 3-15-2019
Amt Stolen ($) 45,000.00 "An 18-year-old boy was referred to prosecutors Thursday for
allegedly stealing about ¥15 million ($134,300) worth of
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cryptocurrency last year by hacking a digital currency storage website,
police said. The case is the first in Japan in which criminal charges
have been pursued against a hacker over cryptocurrency losses, the
Type Hack - Theft police said."
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/15/national/crime-legal/japans-first-case-kind-18-year-old-se
nt-prosecutors-%C2%A515-million-cryptocurrency-theft/#.XI1qGihKhPZ
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/03/15/japan-cryptocurrency-monacoin/
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