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**Bybit Endures a Mammoth $1.5 Billion Robbery, Overshadowing All 2024 Breaches and Surpassing Mt. Gox by Threefold**
The Bybit digital currency marketplace experienced a shocking assault last Friday, resulting in deficits approaching $1.5 billion. Cybersecurity investigators are suspecting the well-known Lazarus Collective, North Korean cybercriminals recognized for their advanced digital offenses.
To contextualize the Bybit robbery, let’s revisit the Mt. Gox catastrophe. In 2014, the original Bitcoin marketplace was devastated when 850,000 Bitcoins disappeared – valued at approximately $400 million then, but an astonishing $80 billion in today’s market.
This recent robbery overshadows the top five digital currency breaches of 2024, whose combined deficits amount to roughly $958 million. The Indian marketplace WazirX experienced $235 million disappear from its multi-signature digital wallets, while Radiant Capital and the NFT venture Munchables each endured multi-million dollar blows, forfeiting around $62.5 million each.
Even the PlayDapp occurrence, where cybercriminals twice targeted the South Korean blockchain gaming application in February, is insignificant in comparison. They initially produced 200 million tokens valued at $26 million by entering its token-producing smart agreement, and then almost produced another 1.6 billion tokens valued at $264 million before PlayDapp interfered.
According to Tom Robinson, co-creator and chief researcher at Elliptic, this might represent the most substantial robbery in digital currency history, potentially even “the biggest robbery ever.” The Lazarus Collective has a background marked by such assaults, notably the $600 million Ronin Network robbery in March 2022.
In associated developments, the Japanese marketplace DMM Bitcoin was compelled to suspend operations following a substantial assault in May, where cybercriminals exploited weaknesses to pilfer over 4,500 Bitcoins, valued at $308 million. The Rise of Ethereum Applications: The Emergence of Stablecoins Issued by Banks
**Digital Currency Market Update:**
* Bitcoin has increased by 0.1% in the past 24 hours, trading at $96,400.
Ethereum also experienced an upswing, climbing by 3.7% to hit $2810.
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Kyle Baird serves as the weekend copy editor at DL News. If you have any advice, you can reach him at [email protected].
