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Deribit

Date (as written)
2022-11
Year
2022
Country
Panama
Actors (as written)
Lazarus
Actor pages
Lazarus
Tags (as written)
Cryptocurrency FinancialGain
Dollar figures (as written)
$28 million; $28,000,000; approximately $28 million dollars; approximately $14 million (Ethereum USDC and ETH); approximately 9,109 ETH

Source entries (3)

lazarus.day

Deribit · 2022-11
In November 2022, Deribit suffered a hot-wallet theft of about $28 million across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDC. The exchange paused withdrawals, said client assets and cold-storage funds were unaffected, and covered the loss from company reserves; linked technical reporting did not confirm the intrusion method or DPRK attribution.
https://lazarus.day/incidents/deribit/

tayvano/lazarus-bluenoroff-research

Deribit · 2022-11-02
Amt Stolen: $28,000,000
https://github.com/tayvano/lazarus-bluenoroff-research/blob/main/hacks-and-thefts/deribit.md

US court filing via CourtListener RECAP: United States v. APPROXIMATELY 1,694,395.463328 OF TETHER CRYPTOCURRENCY

Theft from COMPANY-1, laundered through decentralized exchanges, Tornado Cash and bridges to USDT on Tron · On or about November 1, 2022
On or about November 1, 2022, NKCA stole virtual currency worth approximately $28 million dollars from COMPANY-1 and laundered it through decentralized virtual currency exchanges, a mixing service, and virtual currency bridges. The Defendant Property is traceable to the November 2022 hack and theft from COMPANY-1. [Case No. 1:24-cv-02828, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; filing: COMPLAINT against APPROXIMATELY 1,694,395.463328 OF TETHER CRYPTOCURRENCY]
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.273466/gov.uscourts.dcd.273466.1.0.pdf

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