Hack history / 2019 / Hack or exploit
Bithumb
Hack or exploit on Mar 29, 2019 · Wallet Stolen
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$6.2M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#412
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
According to a report from CoinDesk Korea, Bithumb may have also lost 20.2 million XRP in the recent breach. The XRP was moved from Bithumb’s wallet on March 29 in transactions that can be seen on XRPSCAN.
Details
- Date
- Mar 29, 2019
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Wallet Stolen
- How in
- Other
- Target
- Centralized exchange
- Chains
- not stated
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Bithumb hack, Mar 29, 2019: $6.2M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht13188b0ecb/ (data as of 2026-10-31).