Bitfinex 2016 Heist
Hackers stole 119,754 BTC ($71M then, $9B+ at recovery) from Bitfinex multi-sig hot wallets, recovered six years later via DOJ wallet-file decryption.
Loss
72.0M
USD
Annual record
2016The year in breaches
Total losses
$122.0M
2 incidents
The DAO Reentrancy Hack
The DAO lost 3.6M ETH ($50M) to the textbook reentrancy bug, the heist that split Ethereum into ETH and Ethereum Classic and rewrote smart-contract development.
Loss50.0MUSD