FBI says North Korea-linked hacker groups behind US crypto firm heist

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WASHINGTON - Two hacker groups associated with North Korea, the Lazarus Group and APT38, were responsible for the theft last June of US$100 million from US crypto firm Harmony’s Horizon bridge, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Monday.

A portion of the stolen ethereum was subsequently sent to several virtual asset providers and converted to bitcoin, the FBI said. In June last year, California-based Harmony said that a heist had hit its Horizon bridge, which was the underlying software used by digital tokens such as bitcoin and ether for transferring crypto between different blockchains.

 

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