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Bitbns
India-based centralized cryptocurrency exchange that went live on December 14, 2017 and later acknowledged a February 2022 security incident affecting exchange funds.
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Also known as: BitBNS, BNS, bitbns.com
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Launch date
2017-12-14
Death date
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Years
2017–—
Origin
India
Confidence
high
Last verified
2026-06-23
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Summary
India-based centralized cryptocurrency exchange that went live on December 14, 2017 and later acknowledged a February 2022 security incident affecting exchange funds.
Timeline
Bitbns went live
2017-12-14launchedhigh
Bitbns launched its cryptocurrency exchange service on December 14, 2017.
Bitbns reported a February 2022 security incident
2022-02-01hackhigh
Bitbns later acknowledged that exchange funds had been compromised in a February 2022 security incident.
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Bitbns' official About page gives an exact go-live date of December 14, 2017. In March 2023, contemporaneous reporting said the CEO acknowledged that exchange funds had been compromised in February 2022. HEI records the incident without treating it as a terminal status change.
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