Hack history / 2023 / Scam
Traders lose more than $15 million to phishing website impersonating crypto exchange HitBTC
Scam on May 15, 2023
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$15M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#238
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
No description from DefiLlama or SlowMist; see the sources below.
Details
- Date
- May 15, 2023
- Kind
- Scam
- Method
- not stated
- How in
- Phishing and scams
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- Ethereum, Bitcoin
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Traders lose more than $15 million to phishing website impersonating crypto exchange HitBTC scam, May 15, 2023: $15M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htc7e7384e19/ (data as of 2026-10-31).