This is a comprehensive timeline of major crypto hacks and the subsequent government actions.

1. 2011 2012 2013 2015 2016 20172014 2018 2019 2020
Mt. Gox first
hacked
$5mm loss
(June)
Bitfloor and
Bitcoinica Hacks
145k BTC loss
(March-Sep)
FBI seizes
Silkroad site. DPR
was arrested
(Oct-Nov)
FinCEN enacts
guidance on
MSBs as it
relates to Virtual
Currencies
(March)
Mt. Gox hacked
for 800k BTC
and went
insolvent
(Feb)
Silk Road 2.0 taken
down by Fed
taskforce
(Nov)
Inputs.io and
Vircurex hacked
$2mm loss
(May and Oct)
Secret Service
agent sentenced
for Silk Road
Bitcoin heist
Gatecoin,
ShapeShift, Bitfinex
(2) hacks 180k ETH,
$200k, 120k BTC
(May-Aug)
DOJ indicts NJ man
for material support to
Hamas with $20
Bitcoin transaction
(May)
Yapizon,
Bithumb, YouBit
hacked
$5mm loss
(Apr-Dec)
Crypto Digital
shadow banking
case.
LocalBitcoins, Coincheck,
Bitgrail, Coinrail, Bithumb
(2), Bancor, Zaif,
MapleChange hacked
$830mm loss
(Jan-Oct)
BitClub network
indicted for wire
fraud charges.
$722mm fraud
(Dec)
Crytopia, Coinmama,
DragonEx, Coinbene,
Bithumb (3), Binance,
Upbit
$300mm loss
(Feb-Nov)
Bitstamp, BTER,
Kipcoin and Bitfinex (1)
hacks 19k, 7k, 3k and
1k BTC stolen
(Jan-May)
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Operation Ghost
Click Malvertizing
campaign in
Estonia
(Nov)
Altsbit Hacked
(Feb)
SEC fines Steven
Seagal for
un-lawful touting of
B2G ICO
(Feb)
SEC files complaint
against Telegram offering
claiming Grams were
illegally sold as
unregistered securites
(Oct)
North Korean
Lazarus group
linked to
exchange hack
of Youbit,
Bithumb
DOJ indicts
Chinese nationals
for South Korea
exchange hack
(March)
BTC-e arrest of
Alexander
Vinnik
Russian GRU uses
laundered
cryptocurreny to
fund election
meddling. Indicted
in 2018
SEC launches
FinHub and fines
Floyd Mayweather
and DJ Khaled for
unlawful touting
Centra ICO
(Oct-Nov)
GAO releases
report on virtual
currencies
Silk Road Bitcoin
seizure auction
(Mar)
FBI report leaked
on it's concerns for
botcoin with
ZeusBot
references
Nasdaq, JPMC
hacked, 2.6 million
records stolen
(2010)
Target breach, 70mm
records affected
(Nov-Dec)
Dropbox and
Last.fm hacked
70mm and 35mm
records stolen
(Aug)
Anthem Breach 80mm
records stolen
(Jan)
OPM breach
(Jan)
Sony breached by
DPRK hackers
(Nov-Dec)
Marriot, Twitter, Facebook, CapitalOne,
Microsoft, Google+, Canva, MyFitnessPal,
OxyData breaches.
Equifax breach 150mm
records affected