$1.53 billion stolen in cyber heists

Valuations at time of theft 		Estimated loss

JAN 26, 2018, JAPAN Coincheck – one of Japan’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges – is hacked, losing 523 million units of its XEM currency, belonging to 260,000 customers
					$534m

FEB 2014, JAPAN Mt Gox – world’s foremost platform for trading and storing Bitcoin – files for bankruptcy protection after 850,000 of its own and its customers’ Bitcoins were stolen
					$480m

NOV 2017, UK Parity Tecnologies, digital wallet developer, finds its multi-signature Ethereum wallets are frozen, locking users out of one million Ether digital coins
					$280m

DEC 2017, SLOVENIA Hackers steal around 4,700 Bitcoin from NiceHash mining service
					$80m

AUG 2016, HONG KONG Nearly 120,000 Bitcoin stolen from exchange platform Bitfinex
					$72m

JUN 2016, WORLDWIDE Decentralized autonomous organization DAO, experimental investment bank built on Ethereum cryptocurrency system, is hacked 
					$53m

NOV 2017, HONG KONG Tether – U.S. dollar-pegged virtual currency token system – is hacked,
30,950,010 tokens stolen 
					$31m


Sources: Reuters, Bloomberg, Coindesk 
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