WazirX’s $235 mn hack linked to North Korea; US, Japan, S Korea to counter

India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, WazirX, suffered a major security breach in July 2024, which has now been attributed to North Korea’s notorious hacking organisation Lazarus Group. The United States, Japan, and South Korea issued a joint statement on Tuesday, confirming that the group was behind the attack, which resulted in the loss of 45 per cent of WazirX’s crypto asset holdings.