Binance is the biggest crypto hack ever. At today's prices, it's only #5
Binance is the biggest crypto hack ever. At today's prices, it's only #5 The hackers took about $6.36B from Binance on October 29, the largest theft ever by value at the time. But a decade of rising coin prices changes the ranking. Re-price every stolen coin at today's BTC ($77.4K) and ETH ($2,235), and the old hacks look far bigger. Mt. Gox, 2014: about 650,000 BTC lost for good (850,000 reported, 200,000 later found). About $470M then, $50.3B now. Not one stolen coin has been recovered. LuBian, 2020: 127,426 BTC. $3.5B then, $9.9B now. The coins are now in a contested US forfeiture case.…
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