Hack history / 2014 / Hack or exploit
Picostocks
Hack or exploit on Feb 17, 2014 · Private Key Compromised
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$4.4M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#489
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
Picostocks lost 5,896 BTC from both hot and cold wallets. Because the offline cold storage was somehow accessed, the theft was suspected to be an inside job or the result of compromised key storage, suggesting an internal actor or breach of key management.
Details
- Date
- Feb 17, 2014
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Private Key Compromised
- How in
- Keys, accounts and infrastructure
- Target
- Centralized exchange
- Chains
- Bitcoin
Reported by
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Picostocks hack, Feb 17, 2014: $4.4M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht39770323dd/ (data as of 2026-10-31).