This $1.5 billion hack is exposing just how ‘irreversible’ stolen crypto really is

Bybit sued North Korea, its Reconnaissance General Bureau, and Lazarus Group in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. The exchange won a preliminary injunction blocking unnamed defendants from moving or selling stolen crypto. Public court reporting describes the order as covering those identified assets…
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