Detail Analysis
Date:
Status:
Count:
Contributor:
August 3, 2016
Verified
3
zerofriction.io
Loss Amount:
72,000,000
Recovered Amount:
-
Currency:
Dollars, BTC
KYC By:
Audit By:
None
None
Website:
No data
Twitter:
No data
Discord:
No data
Telegram:
No data
Medium:
No data
Github:
No data
Key Indicators
Platform:
Type:
Category:
Method:
Bitcoin
Exchange
Assets
Unknown
Extended Method:
Security breach
Data Sources:
Nearly 120,000 units of digital currency bitcoin worth about $72 million was stolen from the exchange platform Bitfinex in Hong Kong. There is still unknown how did it happended. The stolen was awoken 2/3/2022 (https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/02/01/hackers-move-383m-worth-of-bitcoin-from-2016-bitfinex-hack/).
On 2/8/2022, agents from FBI and IRS announced that they have recovered nearly 94,000 Bitcoin from the original heist (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/02/08/us-officials-seize-bitcoin-from-2016-bitfinex-hack/).
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