Recently, Bitfinex was hacked and roughtly 120k BTC were stolen. How can be this hack seen in perspective Bitcon history. Let's take a look at three biggest thefts.
3# Picostocks
It was in November 2013, PicoStock cold wallet exchange was compromised and 6k BTC in roughtly 6,000,000 USD value was stolen.
2# Bitfinex
Already mentioned Hong Kong based crypto exchange makes it to the second place. In Aug 2016, several days ago, Bitfinex multi-sig BitGo based was compromised and ~ 120,000 bitcons valued over 70,000,000 USD were stolen.
1# Mtgox
And the still undefeated heavy-weight champion with roughly 850k bitcons stolen valued to about 700,000,000 USD is Japanese exchange MtGox. This incident happened around Jan 2014.
Let's hope we will not have a new "champions" here for a long time.
Cryptsy was estimated at 6 million
https://www.hackread.com/cryptsy-hacked-bitcoin-worth-usd-6-million-stolen/
and Gatecoin worth 2 million
http://www.coindesk.com/gatecoin-2-million-bitcoin-ether-security-breach/
but Bitcoin itself has never been hacked as far as I know
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Yes, there were several thefts around 6M$ but based on my research Picostocks was the biggest one. To add some more there were tens of cases of thefts around 1M$ and more since 2013.
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Let's not forget about Silk Road theft of 170K BTC by FBI.
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Yes, the Silk Road. But that was a law confiscation but yeah I know what you mean.
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Dear User known as @jimmco
Steemit has a BOT problem! Your Vote Counts... Maybe
https://steemit.com/steemit/@weenis/bots-steemit-s-first-community-based-decision-on-bots-your-vote-counts-to-be-or-not-to-be-details-inside
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