They stole USD 1.5 billion from a crypto giant: this is the largest hack since the creation of bitcoin
It is one of the most important cryptocurrency exchanges. The extraction was made in Ethereum, the second most well-known crypto. The platform involved explained that the attacker was able to spoof the signature interface of a transfer between two of its virtual wallets.
A hacker took control of one of Bybit's offline Ethereum wallets, as reported by the platform's CEO, Ben Zhou, in a post on X. It is estimated that 1.46 billion dollars in assets left the wallet in a series of suspicious transactions, according to posts by analyst ZachXBT on Telegram