Incident All ledgers
Bitrue: $23.0m
Bitrue lost $23.0m on 14 April 2023. Ranked 124th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 14 April 2023
- Lost
- $23.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- CEX
- Category
- Key Compromise
- Method
- Hot Wallet Key Compromised
On April 14, 2023, attackers compromised a Bitrue hot wallet and withdrew about $23M in tokens including ETH, QNT, GALA, SHIB, HOT and MATIC. The affected wallet held under 5% of the exchange's total funds.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 124th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 16th in 2023.
- It accounts for 25.3% of the $90.9m in known losses in April 2023.
- 153 incidents in the ledger are classified as Key Compromise, for $8.96bn in total. This one is 0.3% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Other incidents named Bitrue
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Jun 2019 | Bitrue | $4.7m | CEX | Improper Access Control | — |
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Jul 2026 | AFX Bridge | $24.1m | DeFi Protocol | Validator Key Compromised | — |
| 15 Jul 2026 | Ostium | $23.8m | DeFi Protocol | Private Key Compromised | — |
| 09 Jul 2018 | Bancor V3 | $23.5m | DeFi Protocol | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 04 Jun 2024 | Lykke | $22.4m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 29 Aug 2021 | Bilaxy | $21.7m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
All failures in 2023 · 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, “Bitrue, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/bitrue-2023-04-14/. How this is built