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Bitfinex

HIGHBitcoin·Hot Wallet Key Compromised·#54 all-time
$72.0M stolenTuesday, August 2, 2016 · 3712 days ago

Corpus updated 2026-10-01

Other recorded incidents at Bitfinex

DefiLlama records 2 separate incidents under this name.

Bitfinex — 2015
Bitcoin$329K

Situation Summary

8/2/2016 — EXPLOIT DETECTED

$72.0M drained from Bitfinex on Bitcoin.

TECHNIQUE: HOT WALLET KEY COMPROMISED

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