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North Korea steals $1.5bn from Bybit
Attackers tampered with a Safe{Wallet} signing interface to drain about $1.5bn of Ether from Bybit's cold wallet, the largest crypto theft on record; the FBI attributed it to North Korea.
- Organisation
- Bybit
- Disclosed
- 21 February 2025
- Affected
- Not stated
- Data
- Cryptocurrency (ETH)
- Attacker
- TraderTraitor (North Korea)
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- The Hacker News ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “North Korea steals $1.5bn from Bybit”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 21 Feb 2025. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2025-02-21-bybit-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: The Hacker News, https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/bybit-confirms-record-breaking-146.html.
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