{"investigation":{"slug":"kucoin","entity_name":"KuCoin","trust_score":28,"severity_base":null,"score_modifier":10,"confidence":0.93,"status":"published","content_type":"investigation","summary":"KuCoin is a global cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2017 that has accumulated one of the most serious regulatory and security records in the industry. The exchange suffered a $285 million hot-wallet hack in September 2020 attributed to North Korea's Lazarus Group, and in January 2025 pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business in the United States, agreeing to pay over $297 million in fines and forfeitures and exit the US market for at least two years. On-chain investigator ZachXBT has publicly alleged that KuCoin continues to enable illicit fund flows by ignoring victim and law enforcement requests.","sections":[{"content":"KuCoin was founded in September 2017 by Chun Gan (known as 'Michael'), Ke Tang (known as 'Eric'), and Johnny Lyu. The exchange raised approximately 5,500 BTC through an initial coin offering at launch. Originally incorporated in China, KuCoin relocated to Singapore in 2018 following Chinese government restrictions on cryptocurrency companies, then shifted its primary operating entity, Peken Global Limited, to the Seychelles. By September 2025, Peken Global Limited had re-domiciled to the Turks and Caicos Islands. Additional regional entities include KuCoin EU Exchange GmbH (Austria) and KuCoin Thailand under ERX Company Ltd. The exchange grew to serve approximately 1.5 million registered US users and tens of millions globally before its US market exit. In November 2018, KuCoin raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by IDG Capital, Matrix Partners, and Neo Global Capital.","heading":"Background and Corporate Structure","sources":[{"url":"https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/prominent-global-cryptocurrency-exchange-kucoin-and-two-its-founders-criminally","name":"justice.gov","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KuCoin","name":"en.wikipedia.org","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://protos.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-kucoin/","name":"protos.com","type":"other","credibility":3}],"severity":"medium"},{"content":"On September 26, 2020, KuCoin suffered a major security breach when attackers obtained the private keys to the exchange's hot wallets. The attack was detected at approximately 2:51 AM UTC+8 when the exchange's risk management system flagged abnormal ETH and ERC-20 token transactions. By the time KuCoin's operations team began transferring remaining assets to cold storage, attackers had already executed over 500 ETH and ERC-20 transactions across more than 150 different cryptocurrencies. The total value of stolen assets was estimated at approximately $281 to $285 million, making it the largest cryptocurrency exchange hack of 2020 and the third-largest of all time at that point. The hack was later attributed to Lazarus Group, a North Korean state-sponsored hacking collective, by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. Attribution was supported by the attackers' use of a structured mixer payment strategy characteristic of Lazarus Group — sending stolen funds to mixers in payments of consistent amounts just below round Bitcoin numbers — as well as shared deposit addresses with other known Lazarus Group operations. The attackers also used DeFi platforms including Uniswap to swap tokens and obscure the trail. KuCoin CEO Johnny Lyu reported in February 2021 that approximately 78% of stolen funds ($222 million) were recovered through cooperation with exchange partners, 6% ($17.45 million) through law enforcement coordination, and the remaining 16% ($45.55 million) was covered by an insurance fund.","heading":"September 2020 Hot Wallet Hack ($285 Million)","sources":[{"url":"https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/lazarus-group-kucoin-exchange-hack/","name":"chainalysis.com","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/09/26/over-280m-drained-in-kucoin-crypto-exchange-hack","name":"coindesk.com","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://hacken.io/insights/kucoin-september-2020-hack-hacken-research/","name":"hacken.io","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://cryptopotato.com/kucoin-ceo-reassures-they-recovered-all-285-million-stolen-in-last-years-hack/","name":"cryptopotato.com","type":"other","credibility":3}],"severity":"medium"},{"content":"On March 26, 2024, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) unsealed a criminal indictment against KuCoin and two of its co-founders, Chun Gan and Ke Tang, both Chinese nationals. The indictment charged the company and founders with conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and conspiring to violate the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) by willfully failing to maintain an adequate anti-money laundering (AML) program, failing to maintain reasonable customer identification procedures, and failing to file any suspicious activity reports. Prosecutors alleged that until at least July 2023, KuCoin did not require customers to provide any identifying information whatsoever, and that even after implementing a KYC program, it was not applied to existing customers. From November 2022 through March 2023, KuCoin allegedly knowingly permitted US-based customers to open multiple accounts and trade without providing personal identifying information. The DOJ alleged that since its founding in 2017, KuCoin received over $5 billion and sent over $4 billion in suspicious and criminal proceeds — totaling approximately $9 billion in alleged illicit flows — including proceeds from darknet markets, malware, ransomware, and fraud schemes. KuCoin also allegedly received nearly $3.2 million from Tornado Cash, a protocol on OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals list. On January 27, 2025, KuCoin pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to one count of operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business. The plea agreement required payment of $112.9 million in criminal fines and $184.5 million in forfeiture — totaling more than $297 million — and mandated that KuCoin exit the US market for a minimum of two years. Co-founders Chun Gan and Ke Tang each entered two-year deferred prosecution agreements, forfeited $2.7 million, and agreed to cede all management and operational roles at KuCoin. Both founders were Chinese nationals and remained at large as of the initial indictment.","heading":"US Department of Justice Criminal Charges and Guilty Plea","sources":[{"url":"https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/prominent-global-cryptocurrency-exchange-kucoin-and-two-its-founders-criminally","name":"justice.gov","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/01/28/kucoin-hit-with-nearly-usd300-million-fine-after-pleading-guilty-to-u-s-doj-charges","name":"coindesk.com","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://wp.nyu.edu/compliance_enforcement/2025/03/07/cryptocurrency-exchange-kucoin-pleads-guilty-to-unlicensed-money-transmission-agrees-to-pay-more-than-297-4-million-in-criminal-forfeiture-fine/","name":"wp.nyu.edu","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://cointelegraph.com/news/justice-department-charges-kucoin-money-laundering","name":"cointelegraph.com","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/26/kucoin-criminal-crypto-binance-doj-cftc-justice-sdny/","name":"fortune.com","type":"other","credibility":3}],"severity":"medium"},{"content":"In parallel with the DOJ criminal charges, on March 26, 2024, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement action in the Southern District of New York against KuCoin's operating entities — Mek Global Limited, PhoenixFin PTE Ltd., Flashdot Limited, and Peken Global Limited. The CFTC charged KuCoin with illegally dealing in off-exchange commodity futures transactions; soliciting and accepting orders for commodity futures and swaps without registering as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM); operating a swap execution facility without registration; and failing to implement an effective customer identification program. The complaint alleged that KuCoin publicly claimed US users could not access the platform while simultaneously allowing them through via VPN with no IP-level restrictions. The CFTC's complaint covered a four-year period from July 2019 to June 2023. The matter was ultimately resolved with a $500,000 civil monetary penalty levied against Peken Global Limited and a permanent injunction barring the exchange from serving US traders.","heading":"CFTC Civil Enforcement Action","sources":[{"url":"https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8884-24","name":"cftc.gov","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://cryptonews.com/news/kucoin-block-us-traders-cftc-penalty/","name":"cryptonews.com","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://www.analyticsinsight.net/news/crypto-exchange-kucoin-settles-cftc-case-with-500000-civil-penalty/","name":"analyticsinsight.net","type":"other","credibility":3}],"severity":"medium"},{"content":"In September 2025, Canada's Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC) issued a C$19.6 million (approximately USD $14 million) administrative penalty against KuCoin's parent company, Peken Global Limited. The penalty was described as the largest AML fine in Canadian history at the time of issuance. FINTRAC cited three primary violations: failure to register with FINTRAC as required for entities facilitating virtual currency transactions in Canada; failure to report nearly 3,000 large virtual currency transactions exceeding C$10,000 between 2021 and 2024; and failure to file 33 suspicious transaction reports. KuCoin announced it would appeal the penalty before the Federal Court of Canada, characterizing the fine as 'excessive and punitive.'","heading":"Canadian FINTRAC Penalty","sources":[{"url":"https://iclg.com/news/23114-canada-slaps-kucoin-with-usd-14-million-fine-over-aml-failings","name":"iclg.com","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://coincodex.com/article/73796/kucoin-canada-19-million-aml-fine-appeal/","name":"coincodex.com","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-fintrac-issues-nearly-20-million-penalty-against-crypto-exchange/","name":"theglobeandmail.com","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://bitemycoin.com/news/canadas-fintrac-fines-kucoin-19-5m-for-aml-violations-ahead-of-fatf-review/","name":"bitemycoin.com","type":"other","credibility":3}],"severity":"medium"},{"content":"On-chain investigator ZachXBT publicly accused KuCoin of enabling ongoing money laundering by ignoring victim appeals and law enforcement requests. In April 2026, ZachXBT alleged that KuCoin had facilitated the laundering of over $13 million in recently stolen cryptocurrency across two separate incidents. In the first incident, a counterfeit Ledger Live application distributed through Apple's Mac App Store stole approximately $9.5 million from over 50 victims between April 7 and 13, 2026. Stolen funds were allegedly routed through more than 150 KuCoin deposit addresses linked to a mixer service called AudiA6. The largest individual losses in this incident included $3.23 million in USDT, $2.079 million in USDC, and approximately $1.95 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum. In the second incident, approximately $3.5 million (roughly 50 BTC) stolen from Bitcoin Depot was allegedly routed through more than 25 KuCoin addresses. ZachXBT further alleged in May 2026 that KuCoin 'does not assist victims or law enforcement' and that the exchange allows illicit activity to continue 'as long as it generates fees.' Individual victims reported that KuCoin requested sealed police documents and then went silent on follow-up requests. ZachXBT's central allegation is that KuCoin possessed sufficient information to freeze suspicious flagged addresses but chose inaction. These are allegations by a third party and have not been adjudicated in court as of the investigation date.","heading":"ZachXBT Allegations: Ongoing Illicit Fund Flows (2026)","sources":[{"url":"https://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/04/14/zachxbt-claims-kucoin-enabled-laundering-of-over-13m-in-recent-thefts/","name":"cryptotimes.io","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://www.banklesstimes.com/articles/2026/05/22/kucoin-ignored-hack-victims-and-police-appeals-zachxbt-says/","name":"banklesstimes.com","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://www.livebitcoinnews.com/zachxbt-accuses-kucoin-of-ignoring-crypto-crime-victims/","name":"livebitcoinnews.com","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/05/20/kucoin-faces-scrutiny-after-user-traces-scam-funds-to-wallet/","name":"cryptotimes.io","type":"other","credibility":3}],"severity":"medium"},{"content":"US prosecutors documented a systematic pattern of KYC and AML failures spanning the exchange's entire history from 2017. Until at least July 2023 — approximately six years after launch — KuCoin did not require customers to provide any identifying information to open accounts and trade. KuCoin employees reportedly openly promoted the platform's lack of KYC requirements as a feature to attract customers. When a KYC program was finally implemented in August 2023, it was not retroactively applied to existing customers. The DOJ further alleged that KuCoin never registered with the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) as a money services business, despite knowingly serving a significant US customer base that generated at least $184.5 million in fees. The CFTC complaint characterized KuCoin's public statements that US customers could not access the platform as a 'sham,' noting that the exchange imposed no actual IP-level restrictions and allowed VPN access without restriction. The exchange's failure to file any suspicious activity reports over its entire operating history prior to charges was central to both the DOJ and CFTC cases.","heading":"KYC and AML Program Failures","sources":[{"url":"https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/cryptocurrency/kucoin-charged-with-aml-violations-that-let-cybercriminals-launder-billions/amp/","name":"bleepingcomputer.com","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://www.orrick.com/en/Insights/2024/03/US-Indicts-KuCoin-What-It-Means-for-Cryptocurrency-Companies-Offering-Money-Transmission-Services","name":"orrick.com","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://blog.volkovlaw.com/2024/03/doj-and-cftc-bring-charges-against-crypto-exchange-kucoin-for-aml-and-kyc-failures/","name":"blog.volkovlaw.com","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/03/26/crypto-exchange-kucoin-violated-anti-money-laundering-laws-us-charges","name":"coindesk.com","type":"other","credibility":3}],"severity":"medium"},{"content":"US prosecutors alleged that the cumulative effect of KuCoin's AML failures resulted in approximately $9 billion in total suspicious and criminally-derived transaction flows through the platform since its founding. This figure comprises more than $5 billion in alleged suspicious and criminal proceeds received by KuCoin, and more than $4 billion sent. Prosecutors specifically cited proceeds from darknet markets, malware operations, ransomware schemes, and financial fraud. Additionally, KuCoin allegedly received approximately $3.2 million in funds originating from Tornado Cash, a mixing protocol sanctioned by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and placed on the Specially Designated Nationals list. The 2020 Lazarus Group hack itself introduced a significant money laundering dimension, as North Korean state actors used KuCoin deposit addresses as part of a broader laundering infrastructure involving mixers and decentralized finance protocols.","heading":"Illicit Transaction Flows: Darknet, Ransomware, and Sanctions","sources":[{"url":"https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/prominent-global-cryptocurrency-exchange-kucoin-and-two-its-founders-criminally","name":"justice.gov","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://beincrypto.com/kucoin-multibillion-criminal-conspiracy/","name":"beincrypto.com","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/cryptocurrency/kucoin-charged-with-aml-violations-that-let-cybercriminals-launder-billions/amp/","name":"bleepingcomputer.com","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/lazarus-group-kucoin-exchange-hack/","name":"chainalysis.com","type":"other","credibility":3}],"severity":"medium"}],"timeline":[{"date":"2017-09","event":"KuCoin exchange launched by founders Chun Gan, Ke Tang, and Johnny Lyu following a 5,500 BTC ICO raise.","source":"","date_original":"2017-09-01"},{"date":"2018","event":"KuCoin relocates headquarters from China to Singapore amid Chinese government cryptocurrency restrictions.","source":"","date_original":"2018-01-01"},{"date":"2018-11","event":"KuCoin raises $20 million in Series A funding led by IDG Capital, Matrix Partners, and Neo Global Capital.","source":"","date_original":"2018-11-01"},{"date":"2020-09-26","event":"KuCoin hot wallets compromised; private keys stolen. 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