Wallets linked to Bitget’s $387.5 million hack moved about $3.9 million in zcash (ZEC) into the cryptocurrency’s private payment system on Wednesday, making the stolen funds harder to follow as the exchange tries to recover them. CoinDesk’s review of transaction records found that 2,746 ZEC… Read More
“The reason for this behaviour is SHIELD. It automatically detects deviations in flows, collects numerous inputs from KYT and intelligence providers, independent researches, companies and largest centralised players in the industry. Based on these signals the protocol can decide how to handle a transaction,” Shevchenko… Read More
Circle and Tether, the companies behind dollar-linked tokens USDC and USDT, have already frozen about $320,000 in stablecoins connected to the breach. Their tokens contain controls that allow the companies to blacklist addresses. Read More: Circle and Tether step in to freeze hacker wallet after… Read More
Circle and Tether have frozen stablecoins in a wallet linked to Thursday’s $351.6 million Bitget hack, though the amount is a small fraction of the total. Circle blacklisted the address, which Etherscan labels “Bitget Exploiter 8,” at 05:00 UTC Friday, onchain data shows. The wallet… Read More
Crypto exchange Bitget lost $351.6 million dollars to a system breach on Thursday, CEO Gracy Chen announced in a social media post. In a post on X, Chen said that Bitget’s cold wallets and user funds were safe, and that there were “unauthorized transfers from… Read More
