The CEO of BybitBen Zhou revealed that the total number of rob -attack funds is 1.4 billion dollars (approximately 500k eth). Of these, 77% must be traceable, 20% no, and 3% have frozen.
Bybit: Funds stolen by computer pirates amount to 1.4 billion dollars and only 77% are still traceable
The Bybit CEOBen Zhoudescribed in a Its publication in X that The total amount of funds stolen by computer pirates is 1.4 billion dollars (The equivalent of approximately 500,000 eth).
At this time, such a sum of the funds violated seem to be distributed as follows: 77% is still traceable, 20% have disappeared and 3% have been frozen.
Not only that, the post indicates that 83% of the totalwhich is exactly 417,348 eth – approximately 1 billion dollars, It has already become Bitcoin (BTC), using 6,954 wallets.
Zhou states that the hacker mainly used the Thorchain Blockchain to settle Eth in BTC. Specifically, 361,255 ETH (or 900 million dollars), equivalent to 72%, passed through Thor. This amount can be traced.
On the contrary, 79,655 ETH, which is 16% of the funds, have obscured through the instantaneous cripo-interchambe excursion, from which new updates are expected.
Finally, 40,233 ETH or 100 million dollars, equal to 8% of the total, have passed through the proxy OKX Web3. And here too, 16,680 ETH are traceable, 23,553 ETH or 65 million dollars are not traceable and web3 information is requested.
In any case, Zhou also states that there is strong support in the search for stolen funds.
In fact, at this time there is 11 “Rewards hunters” that have helped the crypto-intercam free to freeze part of their stolen funds, receiving in return a reward of 2,178,797 USDT.
Bybit and the situation of stolen funds: the greatest robbery of cryptography in history
Was February 21, 2025When the crypto-intercambio Bybit became a victim of a unprecedented cyber attack, which resulted in the theft of the current 1.4 billion dollars in ETH.
Behind this scenario, it seems that there is the participation of the Lázaro Groupknown for its operations of cyber crimes linked to North Korea.
Specifically, supposedly computer pirates aimed at the Bybit’s cold walletDesigned to protect Crypto-Exchange’s offline.
Computer pirates could Decorate authorized personnel, obtaining the necessary signatures to transfer $ 1.4 billion in ETH.
Success exploded sophisticated Phishing attacks and romantic scams That led the cryptographic exchange staff to sign fraudulent transactions.
Money laundering
This episode has also transferred to the authorities, such as The FBI that asked The actors in the cryptographic sector to cooperate to block money laundering through the block chain.
The FBI has specifically requested exchanges, blockchain developers, analysts and other players for their support for Identify and block stolen funds before they are completely washed.
However, according to other analysis, Computer pirates still managed to wash 605 million dollars in EthereumMore than half of the total loot. The washing would have occurred through complex operations in the chain, asking questions about the safety of CEX (centralized exchanges).
Among the most used methods to wash eth without being identified are the mixer Cash of tornadoes, fractional transactions and cross -chain exchange.
