Hack history / 2019 / Hack or exploit
Bithumb
Hack or exploit on Mar 29, 2019 · Hot Wallet Key Compromised
IN REVIEWSOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 2 SOURCES
Lost
$19M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#216
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
Bithumb hot wallet was compromised by insiders with access to private keys, resulting in theft of 12.5M EOS and 6.2M XRP. All stolen funds were company assets as user funds were stored in cold storage.
In review: possible duplicate within one source.
Details
- Date
- Mar 29, 2019
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Hot Wallet Key Compromised
- How in
- Keys, accounts and infrastructure
- Target
- Centralized exchange
- Chains
- Ethereum, XRP
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Bithumb hack, Mar 29, 2019: $19M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht7269a177b2/ (data as of 2026-10-31).