Hack history / 2012 / Hack or exploit
Bitfloor
Hack or exploit on Sep 5, 2012 · Key Stored Publicly
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 2 SOURCES
Lost
$250K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,401
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
Bitfloor's servers were breached and hackers accessed an unencrypted backup of Bitcoin wallet keys. The founder, Roman Shtylman, had failed to encrypt the digital wallet containing encryption keys during a system upgrade, leaving the backup in unencrypted form on disk.
Details
- Date
- Sep 5, 2012
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Key Stored Publicly
- How in
- Keys, accounts and infrastructure
- Target
- Centralized exchange
- Chains
- Bitcoin
Reported by
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Bitfloor hack, Sep 5, 2012: $250K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht30a0df56bb/ (data as of 2026-11-01).