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Finance

North Korea Used Stolen Crypto to Fund Missile Program: Report

The estimate of $50 million is significantly lower than the $400 million identified by Chainalysis in a report released in January.

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$4.4M Stolen in Hack of Blockchain Infrastructure Firm Meter

According to PeckShield, the hack on Saturday saw more than 1391 ETH and 2.74 BTC stolen.

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Opinion

A Bridge Too Far: Does the Wormhole Hack Mean the Multi-Blockchain Dream Is Dead?

Bridges and other connections between blockchains present inherent security challenges. Whether those can be solved will determine the future of the entire ecosystem.

A collapsed bridge along Forbes Avenue near Frick Park in Pittsburgh on Jan. 28, 2022. Just a few days later, a Solana-Ethereum cryptocurrency bridge called Wormhole met a similar fate. (Justin Merriman/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Blockchain Platform Wormhole Says It's Retrieved $324M Stolen by Hackers

Popular cross-blockchain bridge Wormhole confirmed Thursday all of its funds worth over $326 million stolen from its latest exploit had been restored, and that the bridge’s operations had resumed after the attack vector had been patched. "The Hash" team discusses the latest incident causing a stir in the Solana DeFi landscape.

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Opinion

Calling a Hack an Exploit Minimizes Human Error

After the Wormhole event, it's worth asking about crypto's reliance on and trust in code.

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Markets

Solana's SOL Tumbles 10% After $326M Wormhole Exploit

The crypto fell 10% in the past 24 hours, trading at $98 during Asian afternoon hours.

SOL briefly fell below resistance. (TradingView)

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Someone Just Moved $3.55B Worth of Bitcoin From 2016 Bitfinex Hack

Bad actors would have a tough time cashing out the stolen bitcoin as most of them are blacklisted.

Source code from the master branch of open-source Bitcoin Core code repository on GitHub. (GitHub, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

DeFi Protocol Qubit Finance Exploited for $80M

The attack is the seventh-largest DeFi exploit by the amount of funds stolen, data shows.

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Tech

OpenSea Bug Allows Attackers to Get Massive Discount on Popular NFTs

The bug was spotted as early as December 2021.

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