{"id":69712,"date":"2025-02-27T10:12:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T01:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/27\/north-korea-bybit-crypto-exchange-hack-fbi"},"modified":"2025-02-27T12:35:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T03:35:43","slug":"north-korea-behind-1-5bn-hack-of-crypto-exchange-bybit-says-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69712","title":{"rendered":"North Korea behind $1.5bn hack of crypto exchange ByBit, says FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US agency said it refers to this specific North Korean malicious cyber activity as \u2018TraderTraitor\u2019<\/p>\n<p>North Korea was behind the theft of approximately $1.5bn in virtual assets from a cryptocurrency exchange, the FBI has said, in what is being described as the biggest heist in history.<\/p>\n<p>The haul, which reportedly has since lost some of its value, exceeded the previous record sum of $1bn stolen by the dictator Saddam Hussein from Iraq\u2019s central bank before the 2003 war, and underlines the North\u2019s growing expertise in cybercrime.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/27\/north-korea-bybit-crypto-exchange-hack-fbi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US agency said it refers to this specific North Korean malicious cyber activity as \u2018TraderTraitor\u2019North Korea was behind the theft of approximately $1.5bn in virtual assets from a cryptocurrency exchange, the FBI has said, in what is being describe&#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":[41,987,1003,40,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cybercrime","category-hacking","category-north-korea","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69712","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=69712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69718,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69712\/revisions\/69718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}