Year in review

2016 in crypto failure

Every CryptoMortem record with a primary date in 2016, ordered chronologically.

• Hack·August 2, 2016resolved

  Bitfinex Hack — August 2016

  Attackers extracted 119,756 BTC from Bitfinex segregated hot wallets, worth $72M at the time. In February 2022 the US government seized $4.7B of the proceeds and arrested the two-person laundering operation.

  $72.0M affected
• Hack·June 17, 2016resolved

  The DAO Hack — June 2016

  A recursive-call exploit drained 3.6 million ETH from the largest decentralised organisation on Ethereum, triggering a contentious hard fork that split the chain into ETH and ETC.

  $50.0M affected