🚨 BIGGEST CEX HACKS IN HISTORY
Bitget just lost about $351.6 million, but it’s still not the largest CEX hack ever recorded.
Some famous cases:
- Bybit - 2025: ~$1.46 billion in ETH, the largest recorded CEX hack.
- Coincheck - 2018: ~$530 million NEM taken from a hot wallet.
- Mt. Gox - 2011–2014: nearly $500 million BTC stolen, and the exchange later went bankrupt.
- Bitget - 2026: ~$351.6 million from hot/warm wallets.
- DMM Bitcoin - 2024: ~$308 million, equivalent to 4,502.9 BTC.
- KuCoin - 2020: about $280 million in assets withdrawn from hot wallets.
- WazirX - 2024: more than $230 million taken from a multisig wallet.
- Bitfinex - 2016: 119,755 BTC, worth over $70 million at the time.
- Binance - 2019: 7,000 BTC, about $40 million when the incident happened.
Bitget just lost about $351.6 million, but it’s still not the largest CEX hack ever recorded.
Some famous cases:
- Bybit - 2025: ~$1.46 billion in ETH, the largest recorded CEX hack.
- Coincheck - 2018: ~$530 million NEM taken from a hot wallet.
- Mt. Gox - 2011–2014: nearly $500 million BTC stolen, and the exchange later went bankrupt.
- Bitget - 2026: ~$351.6 million from hot/warm wallets.
- DMM Bitcoin - 2024: ~$308 million, equivalent to 4,502.9 BTC.
- KuCoin - 2020: about $280 million in assets withdrawn from hot wallets.
- WazirX - 2024: more than $230 million taken from a multisig wallet.
- Bitfinex - 2016: 119,755 BTC, worth over $70 million at the time.
- Binance - 2019: 7,000 BTC, about $40 million when the incident happened.
