Incident All ledgers
CoinsPaid: $37.3m
CoinsPaid lost $37.3m on 22 July 2023. Ranked 89th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 22 July 2023
- Lost
- $37.3m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- Other
- Category
- Social Engineering
- Method
- Impersonation Scam
Crypto payments firm CoinsPaid lost $37.3M to the Lazarus Group, which spent six months posing as recruiters and used a fake job interview to get an employee to install malware, giving the attackers access to operational systems and wallets.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 89th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 13th in 2023.
- It accounts for 12.3% of the $304.1m in known losses in July 2023.
- 61 incidents in the ledger are classified as Social Engineering, for $3.12bn in total. This one is 1.2% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Other incidents named CoinsPaid
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 Jan 2024 | CoinsPaid | $7.5m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Jun 2025 | Nobitex | $82.0m | CEX | Malware | — |
| 19 Apr 2021 | EasyFi | $59.0m | DeFi Protocol | Malware | — |
| 05 Nov 2021 | Ooki | $55.0m | DeFi Protocol | Phishing | — |
| 16 Oct 2024 | Radiant V2 | $50.0m | DeFi Protocol | Blind Signing | — |
| 26 Nov 2025 | Upbit | $36.0m | CEX | Malware | — |
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, “CoinsPaid, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/coinspaid-2023-07-22/. How this is built