{"id":14647,"date":"2025-02-24T09:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T09:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=14647"},"modified":"2025-02-24T09:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T09:02:02","slug":"would-you-believe-it-bybit-hacker-now-holds-more-eth-than-vitalik-buterin-and-the-ethereum-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=14647","title":{"rendered":"Would You Believe It? Bybit Hacker Now Holds More ETH Than Vitalik Buterin And The Ethereum Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The hacker who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/02\/43886224\/bybit-founder-confirms-1-4-billion-ethereum-hack-blames-masked-transaction\">carried out the biggest heist<\/a> in cryptocurrency history now holds more <strong>Ethereum <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>) than the blockchain&#8217;s creator, <strong>Vitalik Buterin<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened: <\/strong>North Korean state-backed <strong>Lazarus Group <\/strong>allegedly pilfered over $1.4 billion worth of ETH tokens after seizing control of the cold wallet of cryptocurrency exchange <strong>Bybit.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence, the wallet tied to the hacker <a href=\"https:\/\/intel.arkm.com\/explorer\/entity\/7fb57cc1-fd8e-449f-bd4b-025a5a461e53\">held <\/a>437,700 ETH, worth $1.2 billion as of this writing, and accounted for 0.36% of Ethereum&#8217;s total circulating supply. Notably, the hacker has begun to move &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/02\/43906580\/would-you-believe-it-bybit-hacker-now-holds-more-eth-than-vitalik-buterin-and-the-ethereum\" alt=\"Would\" you believe it bybit hacker now holds more eth than vitalik buterin and the ethereum foundation>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hacker who carried out the biggest heist in cryptocurrency history now holds more Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) than the blockchain&#8217;s creator, Vitalik Buterin.\u00a0 What happened: North Korean state-backed Lazarus Group allegedly pilfered over $1.4 billion worth of ETH tokens after seizing control of the cold wallet of cryptocurrency exchange Bybit.\u00a0 According to blockchain analytics firm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-14647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}