The price of the second largest cryptocurrency in the world, the Ether (Ether), rose by more than 2.3% in the last 24 hours, while CoinDesk 20’s wider index increased by 0.76% only at the same time. Bitcoin dropped around 0.3%.
The increase came amid reports that Bybit, the cryptocurrency exchange that is that -hack for $ 1.5 billion The value of ether and staked ether by North Korean hacking group Lazarus, moved 100 million USDT to new addresses and moved half of it to addresses to buy 36,900 Eth over-the-counter.
Funds, which cost nearly $ 101 million, were then moved to addres reportedMentioned, Arkham intelligence data.
Bybit CEO Ben Zhou has been reported to be said in a session “Ask me” that the company’s genitals are “greater than $ 1.5 billion,” adding that “there is a cold purse safely with nearly 3 billion US dollars in USDT, ”according to the same resource.
Bybit hacker now holds approximately 489,000 ETH worth of approximately $ 1.34 billion, around 0.4% of the total ether’s total supply, making it 14th largest cryptocurrency holder.
Hacker -related addresses are closely monitored in space and that is a major cryptocurrency exchange.
“The stolen funds have already been marked, which is very difficult for the hacker to use them. Any attempt to move these funds to a major exchange will result in an immediate block,” Stealthex CEO Maria Carola Kay said CoinDesk.
Since hacker may not use funds in any way, some analysts are suggests That 0.4% of the ETH supply it holds is “essentially lost.”
