{"id":131865,"date":"2021-12-06T11:23:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T19:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/hackers-take-196-million-from-crypto-exchange-bitmart-security-firm-says"},"modified":"2021-12-06T11:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T19:23:37","slug":"hackers-take-196-million-from-crypto-exchange-bitmart-security-firm-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/hackers-take-196-million-from-crypto-exchange-bitmart-security-firm-says","title":{"rendered":"Hackers take $196 million from crypto exchange Bitmart, security firm says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IrRC8KDBSww?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hackers have taken $196 million from crypto trading platform Bitmart, a security firm said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Bitmart confirmed the hack <a href=\"https:\/\/support.bmx.fund\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/4411998987419\" target=\"_blank\">in an official statement<\/a> Saturday night, calling it \u201ca large-scale security breach\u201d and writing that hackers withdrew about $150 million in assets. However, blockchain security and data analytics firm Peckshield estimates that the loss is closer to $200 million.<\/p>\n<p>Bitmart added in a statement that all withdrawals had been temporarily suspended until further notice and said a thorough security review was underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers have taken $196 million from crypto trading platform Bitmart, a security firm said Saturday. Bitmart confirmed the hack in an official statement Saturday night, calling it \u201ca large-scale security breach\u201d and writing that hackers withdrew about $150 million in assets. However, blockchain security and data analytics firm Peckshield estimates that the loss is closer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}