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Taiwanese Crypto Exchange BitoPro Likely Hacked for $11M in May, ZachXBT Says
On-chain sleuth ZachXBT reports that BitoPro suffered a suspected $11.5 million exploit on May 8, with stolen funds laundered through Tornado Cash and Thorchain.
Updated Jun 2, 2025, 1:50 p.m. Published Jun 2, 2025, 7:13 a.m.
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What to know:
- Taiwanese cryptocurrency exchange BitoPro reportedly lost over $11.5 million in a May 8 exploit involving unauthorized access to its hot wallets.
- The stolen assets were laundered through privacy protocols and eventually moved to a Bitcoin mixing service.
- BitoPro has not publicly acknowledged the breach, citing system maintenance as the reason for a temporary service suspension.
Taiwanese cryptocurrency exchange BitoPro is suspected to have lost over $11.5 million worth of tokens in a May 8 exploit, widely-followed blockchain sleuth ZachXBT said in his Telegram group on Monday.
The exploit involved unauthorized access to BitoPro's hot wallets across multiple blockchains, including Ethereum, Tron, Solana, and Polygon.
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The stolen assets were then sold on decentralized exchanges, with proceeds laundered through privacy protocols such as Tornado Cash and Thorchain, and eventually moved to Wasabi Wallet, a Bitcoin mixing service.
BitoPro has not issued any public statements acknowledging the breach since the supposed explicit. Users were informed of a temporary service suspension due to "system maintenance” last month, and there was little social chatter in popular crypto X circles around the incident at the time.
“BitoPro has yet to formally disclose the incident on X or Telegram and told users the exchange was just offline for "maintenance,” ZachXBT said.
BitoPro has been based in Taiwan since 2018 and is operated by BitoGroup. It is mostly focused on the local market and mainly supports Taiwanese dollar (TWD) fiat pairs for major tokens such as bitcoin , ether and others.
It processed over $20 million in trading volumes in the past 24 hours, data shows, and is the top locally-focused exchange by that metric.
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