Incident All ledgers
Coinrail: $37.2m
Coinrail lost $37.2m on 10 June 2018. Ranked 90th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 10 June 2018
- Lost
- $37.2m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- CEX
- Category
- Access Control
- Method
- Improper Access Control
- Chains
- Ethereum
In June 2018, an intrusion at South Korean exchange Coinrail led to the theft of over $40M in altcoins, roughly 30% of platform assets, mainly NPXS and Aston X tokens. Partner exchanges helped recover two-thirds of the stolen funds.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 90th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 5th in 2018.
- It accounts for 54.1% of the $68.8m in known losses in June 2018.
- 225 incidents in the ledger are classified as Access Control, for $1.96bn in total. This one is 1.9% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Apr 2025 | UPCX | $70.0m | DeFi Protocol | Proxy Upgrade Hijack | — |
| 26 Mar 2024 | Munchables | $62.5m | Gaming | Proxy Upgrade Hijack | — |
| 25 Mar 2019 | Coinbene | $40.0m | CEX | Improper Access Control | — |
| 01 Jul 2017 | Parity | $30.0m | Wallet | Uninitialized Proxy | — |
| 05 Jun 2022 | Wintermute | $17.6m | DeFi Protocol | Improper Access Control | — |
All failures in 2018 · 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, “Coinrail, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/coinrail-2018-06-10/. How this is built