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Friday, January 26, 2018 at 02:57 UTC

Coincheck

NEM hot wallet keys stolen via spear phishing.

Partial
Funds stolen
$534.00M
Recovered
$425.00M80%
Still outstanding
$109.00M
Chain
Ethereum
Category
CEX
Attack vector
Private Key Compromise
Reported by
Chainalysis
Incident ID
h2018-1

Exploit & recovery timeline

  1. Jan 26, 2018 · 00:57 UTC
    Attack preparation

    Attacker wallets funded and staged ahead of the private key compromise exploit against Coincheck.

  2. Jan 26, 2018 · 02:57 UTC
    Exploit executed

    $534.0M drained from Coincheck on Ethereum via Private Key Compromise.

  3. Jan 26, 2018 · 03:57 UTC
    Detected by Chainalysis

    Chainalysis flagged the anomalous transactions and published an initial alert.

  4. Jan 26, 2018 · 06:57 UTC
    Protocol response

    Coincheck paused affected contracts or withdrawals and began tracing outbound flows.

  5. Jan 27, 2018 · 02:57 UTC
    Funds traced

    Stolen assets followed through mixers, bridges, and exchange deposit addresses.

  6. Feb 2, 2018 · 02:57 UTC
    Partial recovery

    $425.0M of $534.0M recovered (80%); the remainder is still unaccounted for.

  7. Feb 25, 2018 · 02:57 UTC
    Investigation continues

    Remaining funds monitored across chains with exchange partners notified.