Incident All ledgers
BitPoint: $27.6m
BitPoint lost $27.6m on 12 July 2019. Ranked 105th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 12 July 2019
- Lost
- $27.6m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- CEX
- Category
- Frontend & Infrastructure
- Method
- Key Leaked via Infrastructure
- Chains
- Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, XRP
In July 2019, Tokyo exchange BitPoint found its hot wallets had been breached, losing about $27.6M in BTC, BCH, ETH and LTC, mostly customer funds. It recovered roughly $2.3M from overseas exchanges and repaid customers before reopening.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 105th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 4th in 2019.
- It accounts for 100.0% of the $27.6m in known losses in July 2019.
- 93 incidents in the ledger are classified as Frontend & Infrastructure, for $7.49bn in total. This one is 0.4% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Jun 2018 | Bithumb | $31.0m | CEX | Key Leaked via Infrastructure | — |
| 16 Jul 2025 | BigONE | $27.0m | CEX | Supply Chain Attack | — |
| 18 Feb 2024 | FixedFloat | $26.1m | DeFi Protocol | Key Leaked via Infrastructure | — |
| 18 Nov 2023 | Kronos Research | $26.0m | Other | API Key Compromised | — |
| 10 Sept 2024 | Indodax | $25.2m | CEX | Key Leaked via Infrastructure | — |
All failures in 2019 · 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, “BitPoint, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/bitpoint-2019-07-12/. How this is built