🔓 Bitcoin hacks – Saturday, 26 September 2026
**Bitget: spoofed backend, not stolen keys; some wallets frozen**
CEO Gracy Chen said attackers compromised a wallet backend and spoofed transaction data rather than stealing private keys. Circle and Tether froze a "Bitget Exploiter 8" wallet holding $318k in stablecoins Friday morning, and other addresses were frozen by blockchain foundations, but most of the loss sits in the 63,000+ ETH taken, which no issuer can freeze. Withdrawals remain suspended with no timeline.
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/09/25/bitget-s-usd351-million-hack-happened-via-spoofed-transfers-not-private-keys-ceo-gray-chen-says
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🔓 Bitcoin hacks – Friday, 25 September 2026
**Bitget hit for $351.6M in year's biggest exchange hack**
Bitget detected unauthorized hot-wallet transfers at 18:31 UTC Sept 24, losing $351.6 million with XRP the largest single asset (~$157.5M). CEO Gracy Chen pointed to North Korea's Lazarus Group based on VPN patterns, though no government has attributed it yet. Cold wallets were untouched and Bitget's $464M user protection fund covers the loss in full; withdrawals are suspended.
https://hackread.com/bitget-hack-suspects-north-korea-lazarus-group/
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