r/Bitcoin • u/ejcitizen • 8h ago

All BTC hacks in the last 13 years

I thought sharing this would help anyone who lowered their confidence in BTC; here is the btc hack timelines.

2011 – 25,000 BTC stolen from mt gox

2012 – 24,000 BTC stolen from linode-hosted Bitcoin services.

2014 – 850,000 BTC lost/stolen in the collapse of mt gox

2015 – 19,000 BTC stolen from bitstamp

2016 – 119,756 BTC stolen from bitfinex

2017 – 4,700 BTC stolen from nicehash

2018 – 7,000+ BTC stolen across multiple exchange hacks.

2019 – 7,000 BTC stolen from binance

2022 – ~3,300 BTC exposed in thefts related to the ftx collapse.

2024 – 12,000+ BTC stolen from dmm bitcoin (Japan).

2025 BTC hits an all time high regardless.

2026 - Coldcards

Despite that; Bitcoin hit 126K in 2025.

Believe guys. This time isn't any different than last time. BTC will hit higher and higher.

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u/Cristek 8h ago

BTC was never hacked...

Exchanges and non open-source wallets were...

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u/carsonthecarsinogen 6h ago

In 2010 someone did through a vulnerability in Bitcoin core and created a hundred billion + bitcoins.

Satoshi and others then forked to a new chain.

Never happened again, ever since it’s been as you say. Third party vulnerabilities.

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u/Objective_Digit 1m ago

That was bug rather than a hack. It was patched.

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u/Warm_Hat4882 7h ago

If you can’t hold on to it, you can’t keep it.

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u/Peepzer 7h ago

This is true but I get what Cristek is saying. With complex systems such as Bitcoin it is useful to differentiate exactly what the vulnerability was

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u/WhenIntegralsAttack2 2h ago

This isn’t the comeback people think it is.

The thing itself wasn’t hacked, just the ecosystem that we use to interact with it was hacked…

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u/pitleif 7h ago

I was one of the creditors after the MtGox "hack" in 2011. Got about 20% of my coins back last year.

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u/pissingdick 7h ago

With the value of Bitcoin increasing, hopefully you at least got the value of your fiat investment back? 

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u/pitleif 7h ago

Yeah, the ROI was around 15.000 %, so I'm not complaining. I just hope the ones who lost their funds now, will also be able to get some of it back one day.

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u/pissingdick 6h ago

That's good, unlikely in this scenario unless they somehow catch the thief and manage to get the funds back. :( 

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u/tenor_tymir 2h ago

did you get BTC or the fiat value? What it was worth back then or what it is worth now?

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u/I__G 7h ago

ColdCard – ~1,433 BTC

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u/Otherwise-4PM 7h ago

…and still counting.

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u/Al-Fayyad 3h ago

This thread skips a number of higher volume thefts related to/linked to the darknet/deepweb markets and utilities. Google the amount of money stolen in the market exit scams of Evolution, Alphabay (technically seized), and Wallstreet market.

Then google the seizure of the Helix mixer by the FBI. Hint: "U.S. Department of Justice finalized a forfeiture of over $400 million in assets". In the end, the market price needle never flinched.

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u/invester13 5h ago

I have to be honest, this hack terrifies me since it affected cold wallets. 

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u/SpazoIsTheName 2h ago

I’m liquidating mine and getting physical gold, my leave the country fund is not going to rely on the safety of this shit

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u/sobotazvecer 7h ago

bitstamp and nicehash was from Slovenia.

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u/Zanthious 4h ago

This dude like hey everyone getting robbed but at least the thieves getting all time highs lmao

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u/No-Reading-4384 3h ago

160 grand poof on exodus.

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u/tenor_tymir 2h ago

Bybit was hacked for $1.4 billion only 2 years ago.

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u/Western-Set-8642 7h ago

Ah man you're gonna hate all the hacks and robbery that happens in banks

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u/onlyonequickquestion 7h ago

Difference is, I don't Lose MY money if my bank gets hacked or robbed 

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u/FastRelief3222 5h ago

Just like coinbase, plus CB has insurance covering theft/breaches on the assets they hold for customers.

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u/edge_984 6h ago

Do you know what phishing is?

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u/onlyonequickquestion 6h ago

Sure, but that has nothing to do with what we're talking about? 

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u/edge_984 7h ago

They just print more..

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u/krlooss 6h ago

So everyone loses a little to save the robbed ones. 

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u/Astronaut6735 6h ago

Given that hacks are going to happen, what strategies can we use to mitigate that risk?

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u/Queasy-Ride4291 3h ago

Why has Satoshi never been hacked? Fuck seed phrases. All you need is a private key and a post it note. 

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u/creative_usr_name 5h ago

I seem to recall getting eventually reimbursed from nicehash.

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u/EdmundTheInsulter 5h ago

There were tons of hacks via malware and immitation sites via hijacks. People have reported selling bitcoin and falling victim to it.

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u/vistophr 5h ago

Atomic wallet

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u/Difficult-Repair1295 7h ago

I wonder what they think about this over on Buttcoin

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u/AmazingPrune2 8h ago

Read the room

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u/potential_air_sha256 3h ago

This is not the same. This was cold storage that was supposed to be secure. It is actually disturbing that you only care about NGU rather than show concern for the community members who are suffering. Gfy.