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The largest bitcoin theft since December 2020 has just been revealed, making it the largest cryptocurrency hack in history.

According to Arkham Intelligence, hackers stole 127,426 bitcoins from the Chinese mining pool LuBian. At the time of the theft, their value was $3.5 billion. Now, considering the rise in bitcoin prices, the assets are valued at $14.5 billion.

The company LuBian operated mining operations in China and Iran, controlling nearly 6% of the total bitcoin hash rate in 2020.

Network analysis by Arkham showed that over 90% of LuBian's bitcoins were withdrawn on December 28, 2020. The remaining funds were stolen two days later from the Omni Layer bitcoin address.

Neither LuBian nor the hackers have acknowledged the breach. The funds remained untouched until the merger in July 2024.

Arkham researchers linked several addresses used in the theft and noted that OP_RETURN messages from LuBian were received at each of them. The pool spent 1.4 BTC on 1,516 transactions to recover the stolen funds.

This pattern indicates that the hack was real, not staged. The hacker has not yet moved the stolen BTC back.

Arkham suspects that LuBian used an incorrect key generation algorithm that could have made its private keys vulnerable to brute force attacks. LuBian still holds about 11,886 BTC worth $1.35 billion.

Meanwhile, the funds stolen by the hacker remain untouched, making him the 13th largest holder of BTC in the world.

This incident broke the previous record - the Bybit hack worth $1.5 billion in February 2025.

The disclosure by Arkham highlights the urgent need to review key security systems and crypto infrastructure, especially for outdated mining operations.