Monitoring

Upbit

HIGHEthereum·Hot Wallet Key Compromised·#73 all-time
$49.3M stolenWednesday, November 27, 2019 · 2524 days ago

Corpus updated 2026-10-25

What happened

  • Upbit, a centralised exchange, lost $49.3M on November 27, 2019.

  • The largest of the 26 incidents recorded in 2019: 18% of the $277.3M lost to hacks that year.

  • The first of 2 recorded incidents at Upbit; the next followed in November 2025, $36.0M.

  • Hot Wallet Key Compromised is behind 60 recorded incidents totalling $3.08B; this is the 16th largest of them.

Cite this record

Monitoring Room, "Upbit hack (2019) — $49.3M stolen", incident record, data: DefiLlama hacks dataset, as of 2026-10-25 08:00 UTC. https://monitoringroom.com/situation/crypto-hack/upbit

Other recorded incidents at Upbit

DefiLlama records 2 separate incidents under this name.

Upbit — 2025
Solana$36.0M

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Source: DefiLlama · 1317 recorded incidents · data as of 2026-10-25 08:00 UTC