In 2010, an unidentified hacker attacked the network on a Bitcoin height of 74,638, creating 184,467,440,737.09551616 Bitcoins out of thin air, causing great panic in the market.
This incident also led to the first forced hard fork in the history of Bitcoin. The Bitcoin Blockchain version 0.3.1 was released within 5 hours after the incident, and only 184.4 billion Bitcoins were removed from the blockchain erase.
