{"id":977213,"date":"2025-11-28T10:46:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T05:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977213"},"modified":"2025-11-28T10:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T05:16:54","slug":"south-koreas-biggest-crypto-exchange-upbit-hacked-investigators-say-they-know-whos-behind-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/28\/south-koreas-biggest-crypto-exchange-upbit-hacked-investigators-say-they-know-whos-behind-it\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s biggest crypto exchange, Upbit, hacked \u2014 investigators say they know who&#8217;s behind it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea suspects that a North Korean team may be behind a major cyberattack on Upbit, the country&#8217;s largest cryptocurrency exchange, which resulted in the unauthorised withdrawal of 44.5 billion won ($30.4 million) in cryptocurrencies on Thursday, the Yonhap News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean authorities are inspecting Upbit&#8217;s systems and suspect hackers tied to North Korea&#8217;s spy agency, known as the Lazarus Group, were behind what the exchange called \u201can abnormal withdrawal,\u201d reported Yonhap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea suspects that a North Korean team may be behind a major cyberattack on Upbit, the country&#8217;s largest cryptocurrency exchange, which resulted in the unauthorised withdrawal of 44.5 billion won ($30.4 million) in cryptocurrencies on Thursday, the Yonhap News Agency. South Korean authorities are inspecting Upbit&#8217;s systems and suspect hackers tied to North Korea&#8217;s spy agency, known as the Lazarus Group, were behind what the exchange called \u201can abnormal withdrawal,\u201d reported Yonhap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}