Crypto exchange Bybit said it was hacked, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of almost $1.5 billion worth of tokens in the biggest theft ever committed in the industry. Researchers believe North Korean hackers were likely responsible.
What I don’t quite understand is how there is 1.5 billion in a single wallet. Or how are these things structured?
This article puts their total assets under management at $15.7b, which are held in different cryptocurrencies with ethereum at just above $5b.
So I am wondering how they have more than 1/6 of their Ethereum in a single wallet or were these multiple that were connected and got compromised through the same vulnerability? How expensive is it to have more individual wallets? Would it not be feasible to have it split in something like $100m chunks? Or any other more moderate size.
What I don’t quite understand is how there is 1.5 billion in a single wallet. Or how are these things structured?
This article puts their total assets under management at $15.7b, which are held in different cryptocurrencies with ethereum at just above $5b.
So I am wondering how they have more than 1/6 of their Ethereum in a single wallet or were these multiple that were connected and got compromised through the same vulnerability? How expensive is it to have more individual wallets? Would it not be feasible to have it split in something like $100m chunks? Or any other more moderate size.