Hack history / 2018 / Hack or exploit
BlackWallet
Hack or exploit on Jan 13, 2018 · DNS hijacking
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$400K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,225
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
User orbit84 posted on Reddit that a hacker entered his hosting provider account and changed the DNS settings to his own hosted version of BlackWallet. The attacker's wallet seems to have accumulated about $400,000 worth of cryptocurrency, and its market value has almost tripled in the past month. In a statement, the founder of BlackWallet claimed that the open source online "star wallet" BlackWallet had been hacked.
Details
- Date
- Jan 13, 2018
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- DNS hijacking
- How in
- Keys, accounts and infrastructure
- Target
- Wallet
- Chains
- not stated
Reported by
Related incidents
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "BlackWallet hack, Jan 13, 2018: $400K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htbbffac08d2/ (data as of 2026-10-31).