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Japanese crypto DMM Bitcoin exchange announced that it lost 4,502.9 BTC ($308 million) in an “unauthorized leak”.

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Blog post on the DMM Bitcoin website, announcing the loss (translated from the original Japanese)

If confirmed as a theft, it would be the eighth largest cryptocurrency heist of all time, and the largest since the $477 million hack suffered by FTX in November 2022.

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A screenshot from Elliptic’s Investigator tool, showing that bitcoin has already been split and sent to a number of new wallets (as of 15:00 UTC)

Elliptic has identified the wallets involved and our customers will be alerted if they receive proceeds from this theft.

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