{"id":233774,"date":"2026-09-29T21:14:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=233774"},"modified":"2026-09-29T21:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:14:45","slug":"bitget-customers-withdraw-over-4000-bitcoins-in-one-hour-following-388m-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=233774","title":{"rendered":"Bitget Customers Withdraw Over 4,000 Bitcoins in One Hour Following $388M Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bitget Customers Withdraw Over 4,000 Bitcoins in One Hour Following $388M Hack<\/a><\/p>\n

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Investors withdrew over 4,000 bitcoins worth over $334 million at today\u2019s prices in one hour after hacked Bitget resumed customer withdrawals, the company\u2019s CEO has said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen told<\/a> Bloomberg Television Tuesday that withdrawals from the exchange had since stabilized following the immediate bitcoin transactions. <\/p>\n

Hackers last week made away<\/a> with $388 million in crypto after targeting the Victoria, Seychelles-based exchange\u2019s hot wallets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe withdrawals actually stabilized a lot today,\u201d Chen said. \u201cThose hundreds of millions [in bitcoin withdrawals] actually most of them happen on the first hour of the withdrawal restart.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a Monday X post, Chen said<\/a> that 9,585 orders of 4,098 bitcoins were processed. The exchange is allowing customers to withdraw funds in phases.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bitget froze withdrawals after blockchain experts flagged that money was leaving the exchange. Bitget later said the attack method in the incident was \u201chighly consistent with known patterns of North Korean hacker organizations.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chen said<\/a> that no cold storage funds were touched but rather attackers had \u201cexploited vulnerabilities from third-party products to steal internal credentials, then used those credentials to send fraudulent withdrawal commands that bypassed our risk controls.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

She added that the company was using its own money to top up its protection fund after it dropped in size. Bloomberg reported<\/a> that it was below $200 million after standing at $464 million before the hack.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bitget said that it was the first \u201csecurity incident of this nature in eight years.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe incident remains contained, and no further unauthorized transfers are possible,\u201d the exchange noted<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bitget is the sixth biggest by trading volume, according to CoinGecko, processing in the past 24 hours $811 million in transactions. The exchange\u2019s customers are mostly based in Asia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Attackers linked to North Korea\u2019s government have long targeted crypto exchanges and are some of the most sophisticated cyber criminals out there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This post Bitget Customers Withdraw Over 4,000 Bitcoins in One Hour Following $388M Hack<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Mathew Di Salvo<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine Bitget Customers Withdraw Over 4,000 Bitcoins in One Hour Following $388M Hack Investors withdrew over 4,000 bitcoins worth over $334 million at today\u2019s prices in one hour after hacked Bitget resumed customer withdrawals, the company\u2019s CEO has said.\u00a0 Bitget CEO Gracy Chen told Bloomberg Television Tuesday that withdrawals from the exchange had since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":233775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/233775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}