Hack history / 2019 / Hack or exploit

Coinbase

Hack or exploit on May 22, 2019 · SIM Card Attack

ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE

Lost

$100K

dollars at the time

Returned

none listed

as the sources state it

Rank

#1,731

among thefts by dollars lost

What happened

Hackers steal $100,000+ worth of BTC from engineering manager at Crypto Custodian BitGo. Sean Coonce, engineering manager at cryptocurrency custodian BitGo. According to the post, Coonce had over $100,000 siphoned out of his account on cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase in under 24 hours. Coone details SIM swapping, a practice that sees the attacker maliciously requesting a telecommunications carrier to redirect the traffic of a mobile phone number to a device over which they have control.

Details

Date: May 22, 2019
Kind: Hack or exploit
Method: SIM Card Attack
How in: Other
Target: Centralized exchange
Chains: not stated

Reported by

SlowMist Hacked ↗

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Cite this page

SwanBluechip, "Coinbase hack, May 22, 2019: $100K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht7c810c06c9/ (data as of 2026-10-31).

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