Hack history / 2019 / Hack or exploit
Cryptopia
Hack or exploit on Jan 13, 2019 · Private Key Leakage
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
undisclosed
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
not ranked
collapses, frauds and later news are not ranked
What happened
A former employee of the now-defunct Cryptopia exchange allegedly stole more than 250,000 New Zealand dollars (US$182,300) of cryptocurrency and customer data from Cryptopia. However, the New Zealand authorities managed to recover the stolen funds and return them to Cryptopia's liquidator Grant Thornton. The man explained in detail how he stole the funds. He said that he unauthorizedly copied the private keys belonging to Cryptopia's many wallets and saved the data on a USB storage device. Then he uploaded the data to his personal computer at home. This allows him to use thousands of wallets and more than 100 million U.S. dollars in various cryptocurrencies.
Details
- Date
- Jan 13, 2019
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Private Key Leakage
- How in
- Keys, accounts and infrastructure
- Target
- Centralized exchange
- Chains
- not stated
Reported by
Related incidents
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Cryptopia hack, Jan 13, 2019: undisclosed lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/hted963090bc/ (data as of 2026-10-31).