In 2022, hackers stole up to $ 3.8 billion through crypto hacks. About this
informs Bloomberg.
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Hacker activity increased throughout the year. The biggest spikes occurred in March, when scammers managed to steal 173.6 thousand ETH coins and 25.5 USDC stablecoins from the Ronin project network, withdrawing $625 million in cryptocurrency, and then in October, when $775 was stolen as a result of 32 separate attacks. 7 million, according to the Chainalysis report.
The most successful crypto hackers have been members of the Lazarus Group, a cybercrime syndicate linked to North Korea. Last year, as a result of numerous attacks, they managed to steal an estimated $1.7 billion.
The number of cryptocurrency thefts in 2022 by 44%
exceeded indicators of the previous year. Experts state that earlier hackers often tried to hack into private digital wallets, but now they are targeting decentralized finance (DeFi) projects.
In 2022 from the cryptocurrency market
was erased almost $1.4 trillion. This was also due to the collapse of large crypto exchanges – for example, FTX, Terra, Mt. gox.
