Hack history / 2020 / Fraud
Empire Market
Fraud on Aug 30, 2020 · Scam
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$30M
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
The well-known darknet market Empire Market has closed its operations. When it exited, the website defrauded about 2638 bitcoins from 1.3 million users, worth nearly 30 million U.S. dollars.
Details
- Date
- Aug 30, 2020
- Kind
- Fraud
- Method
- Scam
- How in
- Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- not stated
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Empire Market fraud, Aug 30, 2020: $30M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htf448efbac2/ (data as of 2026-10-31).