According to analytics firm Arkham, at that time the price of $ 3.5 billion at a price of $ 3.5 billion has been detected by preview of 127,000 bitcoins undeclared theft.
Hack, which Arakham says, is on December 28, 2020, now the largest crypto theft in humans, which is more than $ 1.5 billion bybit exploitation in February.
Despite almost all the lubian holdings dried, the incident completely wet for four years, and neither the mining pool nor the hacker ever has an ear -account.
Lubian was a top -10 mining pool at its peak, responsible for about 6% of the global bitcoin hash rate in mid -2020.
But the pool mysteriously stopped mining in early 2021.
At that time, observers chalk it up to regulator Pina and Iran, where Lubian machines were reported.
Arkham now suggests that the shutdown was the director’s result of a terrible violation, such as vulnerable to weak private major generations unsecured to attacks.
As a final-khai attempt, Lubian sent over 1,500 small bitcoin transactions, including messages asked to return stolen funds. The pool also rotated what was in its bitcoin – about 11,880 coins – recovery wallet.
The hacker has so far transferred coins stolen beyond 2024 consolidation.
Record-break theft
Crypto-related theft reveals a revelation amidst a historical bounce.
In the first half of 2025 alone, hackers stole more than $ 3.1 billion in web 3 platforms, with $ 1.83 billion so -called access to access access control attack, Hakan’s H1 was united for the security report.
These exploits include often compromised infrastructure or administrator certificates, and bypass traditional safety measures such as multi-signature wallets.
With the stolen bitcoins, now with a price of more than $ 14.5 billion, the attacker is ahead of MT among the world’s largest bitcoin holders. Gox hacker and many nation-state Treasury.
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