Incident All ledgers
HTX: $13.6m
HTX lost $13.6m on 22 November 2023. Ranked 165th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 22 November 2023
- Lost
- $13.6m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- CEX
- Category
- Key Compromise
- Method
- Hot Wallet Key Compromised
- Chains
- Ethereum
On November 22, 2023, an attacker obtained private keys held on HTX (Huobi) servers and drained three hot wallets of about $13.6M, converting the assets to Ether; related HECO Chain bridge losses added further impact.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 165th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 21st in 2023.
- It accounts for 4.2% of the $322.4m in known losses in November 2023.
- 153 incidents in the ledger are classified as Key Compromise, for $8.96bn in total. This one is 0.2% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Apr 2024 | Rain | $14.8m | CEX | Private Key Compromised | — |
| 08 Apr 2023 | GDAC | $13.9m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 16 Apr 2026 | Grinex | $13.7m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 31 Oct 2024 | M2 Exchange | $13.7m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 05 Aug 2026 | KITE Foundation | $13.3m | Wallet | Private 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, “HTX, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/htx-2023-11-22/. How this is built