2016-08-02 UTC

Bitfinex hack — 119,756 BTC stolen

Bitfinex multisig wallets drained of 119,756 BTC. The stolen coins sat untouched for years, then began moving in 2022 as the DOJ pursued the Lichtenstein / Morgan investigation.
cdd spike
14,087,764.00
BTC·days
2.71
z-score vs baseline
425,386
block height

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ChainQuery.com event: Bitfinex hack — 119,756 BTC stolen (2016-08-02). chainquery.com/events/2016-08-02-bitfinex-hack

Comparable events

2022-02-01
DOJ moves 94,636 BTC from Bitfinex hack (pre-announcement)
Seven days before the public DOJ announcement, the seized Bitfinex coins moved on-chain — 198.7M BTC·days, z = 66.7. The keys were secured well before the press conference.

Source references

→ Bitfinex blog post-mortem
→ DOJ press release on Lichtenstein/Morgan arrest
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