The Biggest Crypto Hacks Of All Time

Hacking crypto and running away with the bounty is enormously lucrative. That’s why a large number of crypto exchanges have been targeted by cyber criminals. Below is compiled list of the biggest crypto hacks of all times, keep in mind that what listed in this list are the reported hacks as some security breaches were not reported to the public. Update: I added the recent BitPoint hack.

July 12, 2019 The Japanese exchange BitPoint lost $32 million in a hack attack.

June 27, 2019 Bitrue, Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitrue has been hacked for around $4.2 million in user assets.

May 7, 2019 Binance, World’s largest exchange loses $40 million via a single transaction in a large scale security breach.

April 1, 2019 Bithumb, the South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb was hacked for the third time and lost around $13 million in the EOS and XRP

March 25, 2019 Coinbene lost Over $100 Million in crypto a security breach.

March 24, 2019 DragonEx, had a security breach and lost unknown amount of crypto.

February 15, 2019 Cryptopia, suffered a security breach and lost 19,391 (ETH) tokens worth nearly $2.44 million and around 48 million centrality (CENNZ) tokens worth about $1.18.

September 14, 2018 Zaif the Japanese based cryptocurrency exchange has been hacked, about $60 million worth of cryptocurrency.

July 9, 2018 Bancor was hacked and lost around $23 million of cryptocurrency.

June 19, 2018 Bithumb the South Korean crypto exchange got hacked for the second time and lost around $31 million in cryptocurrency.

June 10, 2018 Coinrail the South Korean crypto exchange lost $40 million in hack attack.

February 8, 2018 BitGrail lost 17 million coins of Nano (XRB) in a hack attack.

January 26, 2018 Coincheck the Japanese exchange lost $500 million in crypto as a result of a security breach.

January 26, 2018 LocalBitcoins lost USD 27,000 in a hack attack.

December 19, 2017 YouBit was breached, unknown amount of crypto was stolen.

June 27, 2017 Bithumb the South Korean crypto exchange got hacked and all of it’s clients data (including their names, mobile phone numbers and email addresses) where stolen.

April 26, 2017 Yapizon the South Korean exchange lost 3831 BTC in a hack attack.

October 13, 2016 Bitcurex Polish bitcoin exchange got hacked and lost $1.5m in crypro. At that time Bitcurex was the biggest bitcoin exchanges serving the European market.

August 2, 2016 Bitfinex lost $72 million in a hack attack.

June 30, 2016 ShapeShift was hacked three times in two weeks and lost around $200K in crypto.

May 9, 2016 Gatecoin lost 185,000 Ether and 250 BTC in a security breach.

May 22, 2015 Bitfinex Hong Kong based crypto exchange lost 1400 in a hack attack.

February 18, 2015 KipCoin lost 3000 BTC in a hack attack.

February 14, 2015 BTER the Chinese based crypto exchange lost lost 7170 BTC in a security breach.

January 4, 2015 Bitstamp lost 19000 BTC in a security breach.

July 29, 2014 Cryptsy lost 13,000 BTC and 300,000 LTC in a security breach.

July 14, 2014 MintPal lost uknown amount of crypto in a hack attack.

March 11, 2014 Crypto Rush lost 950 BTC and 2500 LTC in a security breach

March 4, 2014 Poloniex lost 97 BTC in a hack attack.

March 2, 2014 Flexcoin lost 896 BTC in a security breach.

February 17, 2014 Picostocks lost 5896 BTC in a hack attack.

February 7, 2014 Mt.Gox got hacked for the second time and lost 740,000 BTC (6% of all bitcoin in existence at the time).

October 23, 2013 Inputs.io 4100 BTC were stolen.

May 10, 2013 Vircurex lost 1454 BTC 225,263 TRC 23,400 LTC in a single hack attack.

September 3, 2012 Bitfloor lost 24,000 BTC in a hack attack.

July 2012 Bitcoinica got hacked for the third time and lost 40,000 BTC.

May 2012 Bitcoinica got hacked for the second time and lost 38,000 BTC.

March 2012 Bitcoinica got hacked and lost 43,554 BTC.

October 5, 2011 Bitcoin7 exchange was hacked and it’s clients data were stolen.

June 19, 2011 Mt.Gox got hacked and lost $8,750,000 in crypto.