Centralized Exchange Cases
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2022
July 2022
Jul 5th - Voyager Digital Bankruptcy - $5.9b (United States)
Jul 4th - Vauld Platform Withdrawals Paused - $197.7m+ (Global)
June 2022
Jun 17th - Babel Finance Halts Withdrawals - $Unknown (Global)
Jun 12th - Celsius Platform Withdrawals Paused - $11.8b (United States)
March 2022
Mar 18th - BlockFi Hubspot Data Breach - $0k (United States)
Mar 18th - NYDIG HubSpot Data Breach - $Unknown (United States)
Mar 18th - Circle HubSpot Data Breach - $Unknown (United States)
February 2022
Feb 26th - OpenSea Fake Verification Phishing Emails - $Unknown (Global)
Feb 19th - OpenSea Phishing Attack - $3.4m (Global)
Feb 16th - TopGoal Hot Wallet Breach - $1.113m (Global)
Feb 11th - Coinbase Advanced Market Vulnerability - $0k (United States)
Feb 8th - IRA Financial Suspicious Withdrawals - $36m (United States)
Feb 3rd - PayBito Customer Data Breach - $0k (United States/India)
January 2022
Jan 24th - OpenSea Old Contracts Exploited - $1.1m (Global)
Jan 17th - Crypto.com Withdrawals Triggered - $34.358m (Singapore)
Jan 16th - Coinbase Ethereum Stolen via Minecraft Mod - $22k (Unknown)
Jan 12th - OpenSea Forced Sale By Old Listing - $48k (Global)
Jan 8th - LCX Exchange Hot Wallet Hack - $7.94m (Liechtenstein)
Jan 1st - OpenSea Bored Ape Old Contract Hack - $245k (Global)
2021
December 2021
Dec 31st - OpenSea Doodle Sold By Old Listing - $7k (Global)
Dec 26th - Cell Phone Repair Shop Theft hoangs2k - $73k (Canada)
Dec 22nd - CoinRise Investor Losses - $Unknown (Canada)
Dec 11th - Ascendex Hot Wallet Hack - $77.7m (Singapore)
Dec 4th - BitMart Hot Wallet Security Breach - $196m (Cayman Islands)
November 2021
Nov 10th - FomoEX Ponzi Scheme - $Unknown (Global)
Nov 3rd - Robinhood Massive Data Breached - $0k (United States)
October 2021
Oct 17th - OpenSea Hashmasks Fake Listing - $Unknown (Global)
Oct 1st - Coinbase Ethereum Address Typo Miserable_Earth5856 - $2k (Global)
August 2021
Aug 31st - Banksy Fake NFT Sale on OpenSea - $336k (Global)
Aug 29th - Bilaxy Hot Wallet Breach - $21.709m (Seychelles)
Aug 25th - OpenSea sohrobf Fake Support Scam - $543k (Global)
Aug 24th - Coinbase Vidovic Account Sim Swap - $169k (United States)
Aug 23rd - OpenSea Fake Support Accounts - $15k (Global)
Aug 18th - Liquid Warm Wallet Liquidated - $91.35m (Japan)
July 2021
Jul 21st - Coinskale Dogecoin Staking Scam Website Tradegrow - $20k (Australia)
Jul 19th - Coinbase Unauthorized Bank Access - $50k (United States)
Jul 8th - Bitmart BSV 51% Attack - $Unknown (Cayman Islands)
Jul 3rd - Overflow0X Physical Cryptocurrency Robbery - $Unknown (Morocco)
June 2021
Jun 22nd - StakeHound Got FireBlocked - $75m (Switzerland)
Jun 9th - Coinbase Lawsuit People Locked From Accounts - $Unknown (United States)
May 2021
May 19th - BlockFi Sends Free Bitcoin - $10m (United States)
May 15th - CoinBase 6000 Users Robbed - $Unknown (United States)
May 11th - WaterMine Ponzi Scheme - $Unknown (Global)
May 3rd - BitBuy Korea Exit Scam - $Unknown (South Korea)
May 1st - Coinbase Phishing Attacks - $Unknown (United States)
April 2021
Apr 29th - HotBit Downtime and Privacy Breach - $0k (China)
Apr 24th - VeBitcoin Shuts Down - $Unknown (Turkey)
Apr 22nd - Thodex CEO Flees Collapse - $2b (Turkey)
Apr 19th - AfriCrypt Platform "Hacked" - $2.3b (South Africa)
Apr 14th - Celsius Network Phishing Attack - $Unknown (United States)
Apr 7th - Coinbase Blumetti Account Sim Swap - $503k (United States)
February 2021
Feb 17th - Pantera Capital HubSpot Data Breach and Pantera Coin Fraud - $Unknown (United States)
Feb 17th - Coinseed Destroyed By SEC - $3m (United States)
Feb 15th - Cryptopia Liquidation Hack - $45k (New Zealand)
January 2021
Jan 21st - BuyUCoin Data Breach - $0k (India)
Jan 19th - Binance Firo (ZCoin) 51% Attack - $4.381m (Global)
Jan 19th - Indodax Firo (ZCoin) 51% Attack - $400k (Global)
2020
December 2020
Dec 26th - Altilly Assets Hacked - $6.7m (Sweden)
Dec 23rd - Livecoin Shut Down By Hack - $3.3m (Russia)
Dec 21st - Exmo Assets Lost - $10.5m (United Kingdom)
Dec 1st - BTC Markets Privacy Breach - $0k (Australia)
November 2020
Nov 30th - Celsius Network Account Hacked - $82k (United States)
Nov 26th - Bancar Hack Theft - $1.9m (Venezuela)
Nov 21st - Celsius GoDaddy DNS Hijacking - $0k (United States)
Nov 18th - Bitcoin Interchange Exit Scam - $766k (Zimbabwe)
Nov 13th - Liquid Data Leak - $0k (Japan)
October 2020
Oct 27th - Cred CCO Was UK Fugitive - $330.489m (United States)
Oct 22nd - OceanEx Account Breached wassim0 - $30k (Canada)
Oct 3rd - KuCoin Fake Wallet Site - $Unknown (Singapore)
September 2020
Sep 25th - KuCoin Hot Wallet Breach - $281m (Singapore)
Sep 25th - Robinhood Account Hacking Spree - $Unknown (United States)
Sep 23rd - KuCoin Fake Exchange Website - $Unknown (Singapore)
Sep 20th - Sim Swapping AT&T - $560k (United States)
Sep 12th - Arbistar Trading Bot Overpayment - $1000m (Spain)
Sep 8th - Eterbase Hot Wallets Breached - $5.4m (Slovakia)
August 2020
Aug 26th - Coinbase Sim Swapping Lawsuit - $Unknown (United States)
Aug 25th - Coinbit Seizure/Investigation - $85m (South Korea)
Aug 25th - BTC ERA Phishing Attack - $0k (Global)
Aug 24th - CoinBerry ETransfer Glitch Fraud - $1.413m (Canada)
Aug 19th - Mirror Trading International - $885m (South Africa)
Aug 19th - KuCoin Fraudulent Website - $Unknown (Singapore)
Aug 5th - Bitfinex/Ethereum Classic Second 51% Attack - $3.2m (Unknown)
July 2020
Jul 31st - OkEx Ethereum Classic 51% Attack - $5.6m (Malta)
Jul 31st - 2gether Hacked - $1.39m (Spain)
Jul 11th - Cashaa Wallet Hacked - $3.1m (United Kingdom)
June 2020
Jun 23rd - GPay/Cryptopoint/XtraderFX Shut Down - $1.68m (United Kingdom)
Jun 16th - Ledger Shopify Data Breach 2 - $Unknown (Global)
Jun 15th - HTS Coin Shuts Down - $Unknown (South Korea)
Jun 11th - MiningPoolHub Ethereum Theft - $1.282m (United States)
Jun 10th - Good Cycle Ponzi Blackmailed - $5.279m (South Korea)
May 2020
May 27th - LMEX Stock Exchange - $150k (China)
May 17th - Coinbase/AT&T Account Sim Swap signalme - $4k (United States)
May 14th - Ledger Shopify Data Breach 1 - $Unknown (Global)
April 2020
Apr 20th - EOS Ecosystem Ponzi Scheme Collapses - $52m (China)
February 2020
Feb 25th - Coinbase Sim Swapping SaltedAvocadosMhh - $15k (United States)
Feb 17th - VBITEX Hacked - $Unknown (Unknown)
Feb 6th - Altsbit Hot Wallets Hacked - $317k (Italy)
Feb 1st - FCoin Collapses - $125m (China)
January 2020
Jan 1st - Binance/Bitcoin Gold Double Spend Hack - $72k (Malta)
2019
December 2019
Dec 11th - RG Coins Shuts Down - $7m (Bulgaria)
Dec 1st - Cloud Token Wallet Service - $500m (Singapore)
November 2019
Nov 14th - GateHub Privacy Breach - $0k (United Kingdom)
Nov 11th - BitMEX Email Gaffe - $0k (Seychelles)
Nov 4th - VinDAX Exchange Hacked - $500k (Vietnam)
Nov 4th - BeenTrade Fake Crypto Exchange - $Unknown (Global)
Nov 1st - IDAX Global CEO Disappears - $Unknown (China)
Nov 1st - Einstein Exchange - $12m (Canada)
Nov 1st - Upbit Hot Wallet Hack - $49.2m (South Korea)
October 2019
Oct 22nd - OvexTrade Withdrawal Fraud Platform - $Unknown (Global)
Oct 1st - WoToken Wallet Service - $1.1b (China)
September 2019
Sep 14th - Coinhouse Phishing Attack - $Unknown (France)
Sep 10th - Cryptopia Ex-Employee Theft - $235k (New Zealand)
August 2019
Aug 17th - CoinTiger PTT "Cold Wallet" Breach - $1.708m (Singapore)
Aug 1st - EZ-BTC/Dave Smillie - $3.9m+ (Canada)
July 2019
Jul 15th - InnovaMine Cloud Mining Operation - $7m+ (Global)
Jul 11th - BitPoint Hot Wallet Hack - $32.2m (Japan)
Jul 4th - Soxex Collapse - $1000k (Unknown)
Jul 1st - Bitmarket Gone Without Warning - $23m (Poland)
June 2019
Jun 28th - QuickBit Privacy Breach - $0k (Sweden)
Jun 27th - Koinex Shuts Down Regulatory Uncertainty - $Unknown (India)
Jun 25th - Unknown Platform Cyber-Squatting - $27.2m (Global)
Jun 16th - Bitrue Hot Wallet Breach - $4.5m (Singapore)
Jun 2nd - Kraken Flash Crash (Suspected Theft) - $10m (United States)
Jun 1st - Bitsane Exit Scam - $155k+ (Ireland)
Jun 1st - PlusToken Wallet and Exchange - $6b (South Korea)
Jun 1st - Gatehub Customer XRP Wallets Breached - $10.1m (United Kingdom)
May 2019
May 29th - Remitano False XRP Deposit - $Unknown (Seychelles)
May 20th - CoinBase Sim Swapping - $100k (United States)
May 7th - Binance Hot Wallet Theft - $41.238m (Malta)
May 7th - Bitcoins Norway AlphaPoint Attack - $500k+ (Norway)
May 2nd - BitoPro XRP Partial Payment Theft - $2.122m (Taiwan)
May 1st - CoinRoom Goes Boom - $Unknown (Poland)
April 2019
Apr 26th - BitFinex and Crypto Capital - $880m (Hong Kong)
Apr 15th - Bittrex AT&T Gregg Bennett SIM Swap - $507k (United States)
Apr 1st - Coinbene Hack Cover-Up - $100m+ (International)
March 2019
Mar 26th - BiKi Password Tampering - $123k (Singapore)
Mar 24th - DragonEx Hacking Theft - $7m (Singapore)
Mar 24th - Etbox Wallet Hacked - $132k (Seychelles)
Mar 18th - Bitcoin Evolution Celebrity Impersonation Ponzi - $670m (Global)
Mar 15th - Mercatox EOS Breach - $Unknown (United Kingdom)
Mar 1st - Bithumb EOS/XRP Hack - $19.2m (South Korea)
Mar 1st - Gatecoin Enters Liquidation - $Unknown (Hong Kong)
February 2019
Feb 20th - CoinBin Declares Bankruptcy - $26m (South Korea)
Feb 15th - Coinmama User Data Breached - $0k (Ireland)
Feb 5th - QuadrigaCX Bankruptcy - $215m+ (Canada)
January 2019
Jan 28th - Liqui Shuts Down - $0k (Ukraine)
Jan 23rd - CoinZest Accidental Airdrop - $5.3m (South Korea)
Jan 18th - CryptoCashBack Rewards Program Trojan - $85k (Global)
Jan 17th - Komid Fraudulent Platform Withdrawals - $Unknown (South Korea)
Jan 14th - Cryptopia Exchange ERC20 Hack - $20.447m (New Zealand)
Jan 5th - Coinbase Halts Ethereum Classic Trading - $0k (United States)
Jan 1st - Gate.io Ethereum Classic 51% Attack - $271k (Cayman Islands)
Jan 1st - Bitrue Ethereum Classic 51% Attack - $14k (Taiwan/Singapore)
2018
December 2018
Dec 22nd - Coinone Unauthorized Customer Withdrawal - $48k (South Korea)
Dec 15th - CoinFlux CEO Arrested - $Unknown (Romania)
November 2018
Nov 3rd - Gate.io Crypto-Stealing JavaScript - $Unknown (Marshall Islands)
Nov 1st - Pure Bit Exit Scam - $2.8m (South Korea)
October 2018
Oct 17th - Wirex Account Hacked SambucciTony - $Unknown (Global)
Oct 1st - Trade.io - $8m (Switzerland)
Oct 1st - MapleChange Exchange Hacked - $6m (Canada)
September 2018
Sep 1st - Zaif Hacking Theft - $60m (Japan)
July 2018
Jul 21st - WEX Collapses - $400m (Russia)
June 2018
Jun 21st - Zebpay Shutdown In India - $0k (India)
Jun 1st - Bithumb Hacking - $32m (South Korea)
Jun 1st - CoinRail Exchange Hack - $40m (South Korea)
May 2018
May 16th - AT&T Employees Rob Seth Shapiro - $1.8m (Global)
May 11th - Binance Bitcoin Gold 51% Attack - $Unknown (Cayman Islands)
May 11th - Bithumb Bitcoin Gold 51% Attack - $Unknown (South Korea)
May 11th - Bitinka Bitcoin Gold 51% Attack - $Unknown (Peru)
May 11th - Bitfinex Bitcoin Gold 51% Attack - $Unknown (Hong Kong)
May 1st - Bittrex Bitcoin Gold Double-Spend - $255k+ (Liechtenstein)
April 2018
Apr 1st - CoinSecure Exchange Hack - $3.3m (India)
March 2018
Mar 15th - Coinnest Platform CEO Embezzlement - $940k (South Korea)
Mar 7th - Binance Phishing Campaign - $8.8m (Singapore)
February 2018
Feb 1st - BitGrail NANO Hack - $170m (Italy)
January 2018
Jan 18th - USI Tech Ponzi Scheme - $13.3m+ (Global)
Jan 7th - Unknown Sim Swapping Michael Terpin - $24m (United States)
Jan 5th - CoinsMarkets Exit Scam - $Unknown (Cyprus)
Jan 1st - Canadian Bitcoins Robbery - $0k (Canada)
Jan 1st - Coincheck NEM Token Hack - $530m (Japan)
2017
December 2017
Dec 25th - BitKRX Exit Scam - $Unknown (South Korea)
Dec 1st - Youbit Exchange Hack - $2.65m (South Korea)
Dec 1st - NiceHash Exchange Hack - $64m (Slovenia)
November 2017
Nov 19th - Tether USDT Token Theft - $30.95m (Global)
Nov 7th - Optioment Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme - $136.313m (Global)
September 2017
Sep 19th - Bitfinex Phishing Website - $Unknown (Global)
August 2017
Aug 26th - Bittrex Spoofed Website Hack GodOfWhatevers - $100k (Liechtenstein)
July 2017
Jul 25th - BTC-e Assets Seized By US Authorities - $990m+ (Russia)
Jul 25th - Centra Tech Fake Debit Card - $25m (United States)
Jul 17th - Coindash ICO Theft - $7.4m (Global)
Jul 14th - Unknown Ripple Exchange Phishing Scam - $800k (Global)
June 2017
Jun 1st - Bithumb Privacy/Phishing Hack - $31m (China)
Jun 1st - QuadrigaCX Contract Error - $14.7m (Canada)
April 2017
Apr 1st - Yapizon Exchange Hack - $5.3m (South Korea)
2016
October 2016
Oct 13th - Bitcurex Exchange Hack - $1.5m (Poland)
August 2016
Aug 3rd - Bitfinex Security Breach - $72m (Hong Kong)
May 2016
May 1st - Gatecoin Hack - $2.5m (Hong Kong)
March 2016
Mar 1st - CoinTrader/NewNote Shuts Down - $1.5m? (Canada)
January 2016
Jan 15th - Cryptsy Withdrawals Closed/Bankruptcy - $4.291m (United States)
2015
December 2015
Dec 15th - Ripple Trade Shut Down - $0k (Global)
September 2015
Sep 3rd - My Big Coin Fraudulent Service - $6m (United States)
May 2015
May 22nd - Bitfinex Hot Wallet Hack - $356k (Hong Kong)
March 2015
Mar 3rd - Ripple Trade Japan Fraud - $1000k (Japan)
Mar 1st - Coinapult Hot Wallet Hack - $43k (Panama)
Mar 1st - Allcrypt - $12k (Unknown)
February 2015
Feb 15th - BTER Bitcoin Heist - $1.75m (China)
Feb 1st - Kipcoin Exchange Hack - $690k (China)
Feb 1st - MyCoin Exchange Bankruptcy - $387m (Hong Kong)
January 2015
Jan 1st - 796 Exchange Hack - $230k (China)
Jan 1st - Bitstamp Hot Wallet Hack - $5.1m (Luxembourg)
2014
October 2014
Oct 15th - BTC-e Data Leak - $0k (Russia)
Oct 8th - Ripple Trade Ripple and Stellar Hacking - $0k (Global)
Oct 8th - JustCoin Exchange Ripple and Stellar Hacking - $150k (Norway)
Oct 1st - Mintpal Exchange Exit Scam - $1.3m (United Kingdom)
August 2014
Aug 15th - BTER NXT Token Theft - $1.65m (China)
Aug 1st - BitNZ MailJet Hack - $23k (New Zealand)
July 2014
Jul 29th - Cryptsy Exchange Hack - $8.516m (United States)
Jul 13th - MintPal Vericoin Hack/Rollback - $2m (United Kingdom)
Jul 4th - Bitcoins Reserve Social Engineering - $63k (Australia)
March 2014
Mar 1st - Bitcurex Targeted by Hacking - $844k (Poland)
Mar 1st - CryptoRush Hack - $800k (United States)
Mar 1st - Flexcoin Hot Wallet Hack - $600k (Canada)
Mar 1st - Poloniex Withdrawal Hack - $662k (United States)
February 2014
Feb 1st - MT Gox Halts Trade Over Major Hack - $300m (Japan)
2013
December 2013
Dec 1st - Intersango Exit Scam - $14k+ (United Kingdom)
November 2013
Nov 21st - Sheep Marketplace Bitcoin Theft - $5.823m (Czech Republic)
Nov 7th - Inputs.io Additional Lish Attack - $57k (Australia)
Nov 1st - BIPS Wallet Service - $650k (Denmark)
Nov 1st - Czech Bitcash.cz Hacked - $200k (Czech Republic)
Nov 1st - Bidextreme.pl Exchange Hacked - $Unknown (Poland)
Nov 1st - Picostocks “Cold Wallet” Hack - $6m (Marshall Islands)
October 2013
Oct 23rd - Input.io “Wallet” Hack - $1.267m (Australia)
Oct 23rd - Inputs.io API Compromised - $Unknown (Australia)
Oct 1st - GBL Exchange Exit Scam - $4.1m (China)
Oct 1st - Canadian Bitcoins Social Engineering Theft - $100k (Canada)
September 2013
Sep 23rd - CoinLenders Platform Closes With Funds - $869k (Australia)
August 2013
Aug 24th - Inputs.io Phishing Attack - $Unknown (Australia)
July 2013
Jul 15th - WeExchange Ripple Gateway Hacked - $590k (Australia)
Jul 12th - Mt. Gox User champbronc2 Hacked - $2k (Global)
Jul 1st - Bitfunder and WeExchange Hack - $788k (United States)
March 2013
Mar 1st - Mercado Bitcoin - $101k (Germany)
February 2013
Feb 1st - Bit LC Theft - $51k (Panama)
January 2013
Jan 1st - Vircurex Exchange Hack - $50m (Germany)
2012
December 2012
Dec 1st - BitMarket.eu Custodian Failure - $400k (Poland)
September 2012
Sep 1st - Bitfloor Exchange Hack - $240k (United States)
August 2012
Aug 1st - Kronos Hack - $43k (Italy)
July 2012
Jul 1st - BTC-e Hack - $42k (Russia)
Jul 1st - Bitcoinica Another Hot Wallet Hack - $305k (New Zealand)
June 2012
Jun 7th - CryptoXChange Withdrawal Refused - $115k (Australia)
May 2012
May 1st - World Bitcoin Exchange - $25k (Australia)
May 1st - Bitcoinica Hot Wallet Hack - $91k (New Zealand)
March 2012
Mar 1st - Bitcoinica Linode Web Host Hack - $228k (New Zealand)
2011
October 2011
Oct 28th - Mt. Gox Coins Destroyed - $8k (Japan)
Oct 1st - Bitcoin7 Exchange Hack/Fraud - $50k (Unknown)
August 2011
Aug 1st - MyBitcoin Exchange Hack/Fraud - $2m (Unknown)
July 2011
Jul 1st - Bitomat Exchange Wallet.dat File Deleted - $220k (Poland)
June 2011
Jun 19th - Mt. Gox Auditor Theft - $47k (Japan)
Jun 1st - MyBitcoin Username/Password Breach - $72k (Unknown)