Bitcoin hacks in 2024

$13.7M drained from UAE-based M2 Exchange hot wallets across BTC, ETH and Solana; identified, contained and customer funds restored in just 16 minutes.

~$55M drained from BtcTurk's hot wallets, with Binance freezing roughly $5.3M of the stolen funds mid-flight — Turkey's largest exchange compromise to date.

$22M (158 BTC, 2,161 ETH, plus LTC/BCH) drained from Lykke in a private-key compromise the UK exchange tried to keep quiet; later attributed to Lazarus.

DPRK operatives compromised a developer at wallet vendor Ginco via a fake LinkedIn job offer, draining 4,502.9 BTC ($305M) from Japanese exchange DMM Bitcoin.

DPRK's Lazarus drained $4.3M from ALEX Lab's Stacks cross-chain bridge via a flaw in the bridge's verification logic, traced via on-chain laundering.