{"id":40621,"date":"2022-01-14T12:51:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T03:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/14\/north-korean-hackers-stole-400m-in-digital-assets-last-year-says-report"},"modified":"2022-01-14T12:51:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T03:51:34","slug":"north-korean-hackers-stole-400m-in-digital-assets-last-year-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40621","title":{"rendered":"North Korean hackers stole $400m in digital assets last year, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The regime has launched at least seven cyber-attacks on cryptocurrency platforms, say blockchain experts<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has launched at least seven attacks on cryptocurrency platforms that extracted nearly $400m worth of digital assets last year, one of its most successful years on record, according to a new analysis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom 2020 to 2021, the number of North Korean-linked hacks jumped from four to seven, and the value extracted from these hacks grew by 40%,\u201d said the report by blockchain experts Chainalysis, which was released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/14\/north-korean-hackers-stole-400m-in-digital-assets-last-year-says-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The regime has launched at least seven cyber-attacks on cryptocurrency platforms, say blockchain expertsNorth Korea has launched at least seven attacks on cryptocurrency platforms that extracted nearly $400m worth of digital assets last year, one of it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,310,987,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime","category-north-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40622,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40621\/revisions\/40622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}