Detail Analysis
Date:
Status:
Count:
Contributor:
July 12, 2019
Verified
1
zerofriction.io
Loss Amount:
27,610,000
Recovered Amount:
-
Currency:
Dollars, BTC, ETH, BCH, XRP, LTC
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:
Exchange
Assets
Poor Key Management
Extended Method:
Private key leak, hot wallet
Data Sources:
On July 12, Japan's BitPoint Japan (BPJ) exchange was hacked, and 3.5 billion yen (32 million U.S. dollars) worth of cryptocurrency in the hot wallet was stolen. After that, BPJ shut down all services of the exchange. On the 14th, BPJ announced the recovery of some stolen cryptocurrencies from overseas trading systems, reducing the total loss to 3.02 billion yen (customer funds 2.06 billion, BPJ own funds 960 million).
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