crypto industry lost a record $1.64B in Q1 2025 across 40 incidents, including $1.46B from the Bybit hack, vs. $348.3M across 63 incidents in Q1 2024 (James Hunt/The Block)

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How the Crypto Exchange Bybit Lost $1.5 Billion to North Korean Hackers

March 6, 2025

On the night of Feb. 21, Ben Zhou, the chief executive of the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, logged on to his…

February 24, 2025

$1.5 billion. That’s the amount of money that has just been stolen by hackers from one of the world’s biggest…

February 22, 2025

As the so-called Department of Government Efficiency continues to rampage through the United States government by making sweeping cuts to…

February 22, 2025

The good news for cryptocurrency investors arrived just after 8 a.m. on Friday: Coinbase, the largest crypto marketplace in the…