Topic: List of Major Bitcoin Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses - page 6. (Read 87594 times)

Thanks. I'll have time again come this Sunday, so I'll put up an update then.

Shouldn't Ukyo/WeExchange be in here as well?

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-94-con-by-jon-montroll-337523

Well, if not CT, then ESECURITY assets were kind of theft. But CT pre-closure was handled very bad - they should stop trades, empty orders and than announce that, like they did some time ago. So let's wait those three months and do something with ESEC/KODDOS theft on shareholders.

Have you considered adding in all the bitcointalk ponzi's that we have seen recently (maybe as a whole)?

If not then crypto double apparently got away with 1,000 BTC which should be above your threshold.

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Additionally according to recent court evidence in the DRP/Ross Ulbright case, $2 million (USD) was stolen from what appeared to be a SR account.

It's a bit early to call it a mintpal scam yet
But it's worth keeping track of this for a while longer in my opinion

hahahahahahahaha.


cryptorush 2.0.  I swear all these scammy sack of shits all use the same 'scam template' every time.

Seems like good news!

Some additions/clarifications.

CTB and CTL shares is a exactly same asset - just traded in BTC and LTC market respectively.
But numbers of shares was halfed from 50000 original plan in quote above. Here is anounce(from 2nd February, 2014): https://crypto-trade.com/news/48 (Local copy also saved)
So final share count is:
* CTL - 3294 / 5000
* CTB - 5392 / 20000
And each CTB/CTL share representing 0.002% of Crypto-Trade's net profits and remaining Crypto-Trade's assets.
Dividends was paid in full regularly (each week automatically) and although they were very small, they accordance with the agreement between management and shareholders. Only violated the conditions of the liquidation. And not stop shares trading before closure announce (i and some other users got tons of this shares due can not cancel orders which placed before closure decision and buy a lot of unwanted worthless shares when panic runaway of users began)

ESB and ESL is another situation:
Business behind it NOT liquidated (it is the KODDOS anti DDOS service: Koddos.com, Kovpslayer.com, which continue to work, but refuse pay dividends or return money invested)  
ESB and ESL is about same asset (KODDOS servers) but have different nominals not just LTC/BTC market:
1 server(@2500 USD) = 250 ESB shares. 1 share represent 0.4% or 10 USD from initial value. 2 servers (500 ESB) total
1 server(@2500 USD) = 10000 ESL shares. 1 share represent 0.01% or 0.25 USD from initial value. 4 servers (40 000 ESL) total

So 1 ESB = 40 ESL. And total IPO asset is 6 servers (x2500=15000 USD), not 10 (25000 USD) as planned initially.
Last ESB/ESL dividends was paid at 2014-06-21. Last paid period is May 2014.
So not only liquidation process violated but also >7 month(starting from Jun 2014) of dividends (~450*0.3*6*7 = 5670 USD) not paid.

Karpeles deserves an special award for being the biggest scammer in the BTC world as far as I can remember, that got away with it lol.

ESECURITY S.A. - KODDOS - CRYPTO TRADE

Crypto trade announced its closure two days ago, without any warning or notification about problems to its shareholders, which caused massive sellout while hot wallet were emptied. No communication, no support, no answers.


Crypto trade was an exchange service with securities exchange. They had their own assets issued:
* ESL - 40000 / 40000 shares sold
* ESB - 500 / 500 shares sold
* CTL - 3294 / 10000 shares sold
* CTB - 5392 / 40000 shares sold

ESL / ESL Contract details (full contract can be seen here)


CTL / CTB Contract details (full contract can be seen here)


Despite the contract details of both listings noone bothered to inform shareholders, nor liquidate assets. In case of ESEC asset, no dividend was paid for almost a year - without explanation. Also noone answers emails nor messages here at forum. KODDOS customer service does not provide any contacts and replies just "we are here just for our customers".

 https://blockchain.info/address/1L2JsXHPMYuAa9ugvHGLwkdstCPUDemNCf

they lost 19,000 BTC

do not count the other 1000 BTC that you see now. many stupids are STILL sending btc to that hacked address   

I read that the bitstamp money loss was far less than reported anyone can back this up?

Nice graph...but shouldn't this be plotted on a log scale? 

I just wanted to say, really amazing job putting this together. I am impressed with how thorough and detailed it is.

There are three heists that stand out in a big way. What is the common thread? 

A quick visualization of the data:



This is a great list to maintain. I predict that we will see the number of heists increasing, but the size of the heists shrinking over time; simply a matter of decentralization. At least until adoption is totally saturated - at which point it can go either direction.

No more too big to fail.

***A shout out to Dree12 for supply the data that went into this chart.***

The ones that are hard to list are scams and ponzis that may meet the cutoff but a fixed value can't be determined
Example Hashprofit ran off with some coins recently and were a HYIP for mining
That said how many people bought into the scam is another question entirely and the amounts stolen that said I put this here as a pending note while trying to see if it meets minimum requirements.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2qpao3/hashprofit_is_down_ddos_attack_or_scam/
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.10048539
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-unofficial-hashprofit-thread-908625

The amount stolen (77 BTC) was below the cutoff, so this won't be included. A cutoff provides an objective way to include or exclude thefts.

great job  many thanks.

There was a theft from poloniex almost a year ago. A percentage of BTC was stolen. So poloniex subtracted from everyone's balances the percentage and finally payed back after some months all the coins from the fees.

I am just writing this in case you are interested and want to research it more.