#bybit被盗 Bybit, the world’s second-largest crypto exchange by volume, announced on Friday that it was the victim of an attack in which hackers made off with more than $1.4 billion in Ether (ETH).

“Bybit detected unauthorized activity involving one of our ETH cold wallets,” they wrote in an X post. “Unfortunately, the transaction was manipulated via a sophisticated attack that masked the signing interface to display the correct address while changing the underlying smart contract logic. As a result, the attacker was able to take control of the affected ETH cold wallet and transfer its holdings to an unidentified address.”

Bybit said their security team is working to investigate the incident, and they invite “any team with expertise in blockchain analysis and fund recovery” to join the effort.

“We would like to assure our users and partners that all other Bybit cold wallets remain completely secure,” they added. “All customer funds are safe and our operations are continuing as usual without any interruptions.”

Bybit co-founder Ben Zhou provided more details in a series of posts to his own X account. “Just had a transfer from the Bybit ETH multisig cold wallet to our warm wallet about 1 hour ago,” he wrote. “It appears this particular transaction is masked [sic], all signers see the masked [sic] UI which shows the correct address, the URL is from @safe.”