Bitget Hack Losses Climb to $387M: Here’s What Happened, and Why North Korea Is a Suspect
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Chainalysis Used AI to Trace the $387M Bitget Hack Back to North Korea
The firm says the Sept. 24 breach pushed North Korea's 2026 crypto haul past $1 billion, and detailed how it used in-house AI to trace the stolen funds across four blockchains in a race against the attackers.
North Korea Is Laundering Binance Hack Loot at One New Wallet Every 25 Seconds
$2.85 billion of the $6.43 billion stolen from Binance has been frozen or seized, compared with about 3% in the Bybit hack, as North Korea’s automated laundering spans 12,000 wallets.
North Korean hackers create memecoins to launder funds from Binance hack: Elliptic
The blockchain firm traced stolen funds through six new tokens on NEAR, where hackers used liquidity pools to obscure transfers between wallets.
TRM and Chainalysis Tie $6.4B Binance Hack to North Korea's TraderTraitor
Both firms blame the group behind the Bybit hack, as Binance says it has set aside $6.34 billion of its own funds to cover user losses.
North Korea linked to $6.3B Binance hack by crypto investigators
TRM Labs says it has high confidence in the attribution, while ZachXBT identified stolen funds from the Binance and Bitget hacks converging at the same address.