{"id":45888,"date":"2022-06-30T14:06:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T05:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/30\/north-korean-hackers-thought-to-be-behind-100m-cryptocurrency-heist"},"modified":"2022-06-30T14:06:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T05:06:24","slug":"north-korean-hackers-thought-to-be-behind-100m-cryptocurrency-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45888","title":{"rendered":"North Korean hackers thought to be behind $100m cryptocurrency heist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If confirmed, last week\u2019s attack would be the eighth this year \u2013 involving $1bn in stolen funds \u2013 that could be confidently attributed to North Korea<\/p>\n<p>North Korean hackers are thought to be behind last week\u2019s theft of as much as $100m in cryptocurrency from a US company, as the regime steps up attempts to secure funding for its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.<\/p>\n<p>The assets were stolen on 23 June from Horizon Bridge, a service operated by the Harmony blockchain that allows assets to be transferred to other blockchains, three digital investigative firms have concluded.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/30\/north-korean-hackers-thought-to-be-behind-100m-cryptocurrency-heist\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If confirmed, last week\u2019s attack would be the eighth this year \u2013 involving $1bn in stolen funds \u2013 that could be confidently attributed to North KoreaNorth Korean hackers are thought to be behind last week\u2019s theft of as much as $100m in cryptocurrency f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,310,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cryptocurrencies","category-north-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45888","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45889,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45888\/revisions\/45889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}