Incident All ledgers
Bitget: $387.0m
Bitget lost $387.0m on 24 September 2026. Ranked 10th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 24 September 2026
- Lost
- $387.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- CEX
- Category
- Key Compromise
- Method
- Hot Wallet Key Compromised
- Chains
- Ethereum, XRP, Tron, Zcash
Bitget found unauthorized transfers from a small number of its hot wallets on September 24, with about $387.5M traced to attacker-controlled addresses on several chains including Ethereum, XRP Ledger, Zcash and Tron. The exchange says the incident is contained.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 10th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 2nd in 2026.
- It accounts for 52.6% of the $735.8m in known losses in September 2026.
- 153 incidents in the ledger are classified as Key Compromise, for $8.96bn in total. This one is 4.3% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Other incidents named Bitget
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Apr 2025 | Bitget | $100.0m | CEX | Market Maker Bot Exploited | — |
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Mar 2022 | Ronin Bridge | $624.0m | DeFi Protocol | Validator Key Compromised | — |
| 26 Jan 2018 | Coincheck | $534.0m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 07 Feb 2014 | Mt. Gox | $470.0m | CEX | Private Key Compromised | — |
| 09 Feb 2024 | PlayDapp | $290.0m | DeFi Protocol | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 29 Sept 2020 | KuCoin | $281.0m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
All failures in 2026 · The failures ledger
Amounts are DefiLlama’s estimates and can change as incidents are revalued. Its returned figure can include money a company repaid itself, not only funds recovered from attackers. Source: DefiLlama.
Cite this Bitminer.io, “Bitget, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/bitget-2026-09-24/. How this is built