Hack history / 2026 / Costly mistake or other
Bithumb accidentally gives away $44 billion to customers
Costly mistake or other on Feb 7, 2026
IN REVIEWONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$44.00B
dollars at the time
Returned
$43.87B
100% of the loss, as a source states it
Rank
not ranked
collapses, frauds and later news are not ranked
What happened
No description from DefiLlama or SlowMist; see the sources below.
In review: single source for a loss of $500M or more.
Details
- Date
- Feb 7, 2026
- Kind
- Costly mistake or other
- Method
- not stated
- How in
- Other
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- Bitcoin
After the theft
- Recovered or frozen
- $43.87B
“$44.00B taken, $132.0M after recovery or freezing” (Web3 Is Going Great)
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SwanBluechip, "Bithumb accidentally gives away $44 billion to customers costly mistake or other, Feb 7, 2026: $44.00B lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht69bc824255/ (data as of 2026-10-31).