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HIGHBitcoin·Hot Wallet Key Compromised·#79 all-time

Binance

$40.0M stolenTuesday, May 7, 2019 · 2659 days ago

Corpus updated 2026-08-17

Situation Summary

5/7/2019 — EXPLOIT DETECTED

$40.0M drained from Binance on Bitcoin.

TECHNIQUE: HOT WALLET KEY COMPROMISED

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