Hack history / 2014 / Hack or exploit
Mt. Gox
Hack or exploit on Feb 7, 2014 · Private Key Compromised
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 2 SOURCES
Lost
$470M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#10
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
Mt. Gox, the world's largest Bitcoin exchange, collapsed when it revealed that 850,000 BTC belonging to customers and the company were missing. The exchange had been incrementally hacked since at least 2011 when attackers gained access to the hot wallet, with hackers siphoning BTC over several years.
Details
- Date
- Feb 7, 2014
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Private Key Compromised
- How in
- Keys, accounts and infrastructure
- Target
- Centralized exchange
- Chains
- Bitcoin
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Mt. Gox hack, Feb 7, 2014: $470M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htbd619b03c2/ (data as of 2026-11-01).