Bitget Hack Update: Security incident

Chainalysis has attributed the $387 million Bitget theft to North Korean hackers. The firm said the attack lifts the value of crypto stolen by DPRK-linked actors this year above $1 billion. North Korean attackers reportedly used a cross-chain swap to convert stolen XRP into Bitcoin and kept the tokens away from exchanges. Drift, KelpDAO and The post Bitget Hack Update: XRP, Bitcoin, and North Korean Link appeared first on BeInCrypto .

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Sources

• https://beincrypto.com/bitget-hack-north-korea-xrp-bitcoin/
• https://crypto.news/chainalysis-ai-traces-bitget-hack-in-10-minutes/

Record history

First seen: 2026-10-03T12:00:00.000Z. Last updated: 2026-10-03T15:02:15.584Z. Revision: 1.