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🚨 📢 BREAKING: Bybit Confirms $1.46 Billion Hack -Full Breakdown & Wallet Tracking 🚨 🔍 Method: Masked UI Spoofing This is a deep dive into the hack, the attacker’s tactics, and how we can track their stolen ETH. Let’s get into it! 👇
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Thread (10/10) 🧵 2024-2025 – BILLIONS IN BTC ARE MOVING AGAIN After 10 years, creditors are finally getting repaid! May 2024: 141,000 BTC ($9.6B) moved July 2024: 47,229 BTC ($2.71B) transferred Nov 2024: 32,871 BTC ($2.2B) sent Feb 2025: 67,500 BTC ($3.9B) moved March 6,
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Thread (9/10)🧵 Legal Fallout & Lawsuits 2015: Mark Karpelès arrested in Japan. Charges: Data falsification & embezzlement. 2019 Verdict: Guilty of record-tampering Not guilty of embezzlement Punishment: 2.5 years in prison, suspended sentence—he never went to jail.
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Thread (8/10) 🧵 Where Did the Bitcoin Go? March 2014: 200,000 BTC “found” in an old cold wallet—reducing the net loss to 650,000 BTC. 2017: Blockchain analysis traced over 300,000 BTC to BTC-e, a shady Russian exchange. 2017: Alexander Vinnik (BTC-e operator) arrested for
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Thread (7/10)🧵 February 2014 – The Collapse Begins Feb 7, 2014: Customers couldn’t withdraw BTC—Mt. Gox suspended all withdrawals, blaming “technical issues.” Feb 17, 2014: CEO Mark Karpelès reassured customers: “We should be able to resume withdrawals soon.” Feb 20, 2014:
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Thread (6/10) 🧵 The 2013 Warning Signs March 2013: A transaction log bug caused a 23% crash in BTC price. April 2013: Mt. Gox suspended trading—causing a 50% crash. May 2013: A $75M lawsuit + U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warrant led to seized bank accounts. June
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Thread (5/10)🧵 The Silent Theft: 2011–2013 In late 2011, hackers stole Mt. Gox’s private keys—due to an unencrypted wallet.dat file. From September 2011 to 2013, the hacker slowly siphoned BTC from Mt. Gox’s hot wallets. By mid-2013, over 630,000 BTC had been drained but
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Thread (4/10)🧵 The First Major Hack in 2011 June 2011: Attackers compromise an Mt. Gox auditor’s computer and gain admin access. 25,000 BTC stolen ($400K at the time, ~$7B today). The attacker manipulated the exchange price, causing Bitcoin to plummet from $17 to
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Thread (3/10)🧵 The Rapid Rise of Mt. Gox Mark Karpelès takes over (2011) and immediately doubles trading volume to ~20,000 transactions per day. Bitcoin was trading at just $1. By 2013, Mt. Gox handled over 70% of all BTC trading worldwide—making it the most dominant
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Thread (2/10)🧵 Mt. Gox: From Trading Cards to Bitcoin Exchange. 2006: @JedMcCaleb (yes, the guy who later co-founded Ripple & Stellar) launched Mt. Gox as a site to trade Magic: The Gathering Online cards. 2007: The site shut down after a few months, and McCaleb moved on.
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DAY 1 of 100: Investigating Crypto Hacks & Cybersecurity Breaches 🚨 Thread (1/10)🧵 The Mt. Gox Bitcoin Saga: The Full Story from Day 1 to Today What started as a Magic: The Gathering trading site in 2006 turned into the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange and then collapsed
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🚨 Since June 2024, the SlowMist security team has been invited by multiple teams to conduct forensic investigations into several hacking incidents.🧐 After accumulating prior intelligence and conducting an in-depth analysis over the past 30 days, we have completed a review of
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WE’VE COMPILED A LIST OF BYBIT HACKER WALLETS The Bybit Hacker currently holds $1.37B of ETH and has used 53 wallets so far. Wallet list below:
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🧵 4/ Full List of Hacker Wallets 🛑 Blacklist these addresses on all EVM chains: 1.0x40e98feeebad7ddb0f0534ccaa617427ea10187e 2.0x30a822cdd2782d2b2a12a08526452e885978fa1d 3.0x6d46bd3aff100f23c194e5312f93507978a6dc91 4.0x660bfcea3a5faf823e8f8bf57dd558db034dea1d
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🧵 3/ Where Did the Stolen ETH Go? After withdrawing the 401,346 ETH, the hacker started splitting funds across multiple wallets. •39 addresses received 10,000 ETH each •9 more addresses received 10,000 ETH each This looks like a classic laundering attempt—spreading out
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🧵 2/ Hacker’s Main Wallet & First Transaction The first big move happened at block 21895251, on Feb 21 at 14:16:11 UTC: 💰 Hacker Wallet: 0x47666fab8bd0ac7003bce3f5c3585383f09486e2 🔗 ETH Taken: 401,346.7688584 ETH (~$1.46B) 📉 ETH Price at the time: ~$2,823.5 (but market was
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🧵 1/ The Big Hack – $1.46B Stolen from Bybit On February 21, 2025, Bybit got hit with one of the largest crypto exchange hacks ever. The hacker drained 401,346 ETH (worth ~$1.46B) from Bybit’s Ethereum cold wallet. 📢 Bybit later confirmed that the attack involved masked UI
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