Japanese crypto alternate DMM Bitcoin confirmed on Friday that it had been sufferer of a hack ensuing within the theft of 4,502.9 bitcoin, or about $305 million.
According to crypto security firm Elliptic, that is the eighth largest crypto theft in historical past.
DMM Bitcoin mentioned it detected “an unauthorized leak of Bitcoin (BTC) from our pockets” on Friday, and that it was nonetheless investigating and that it had taken measures to cease additional thefts. The crypto alternate mentioned it additionally “carried out restrictions on using some providers to make sure extra security,” in keeping with a machine translation of the company’s official blog post, written in Japanese.
The corporate additionally promised that each one prospects’ Bitcoin deposits “will probably be totally assured as we’ll procure the equal quantity of BTC that was leaked with assist from our group corporations.”
DMM Bitcoin didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
In response to De.Fi, the web3 safety agency that tracks crypto thefts and scams, hackers last year stole around $2 billion in crypto across dozens of cyberattacks and thefts. Whereas that’s nonetheless a gargantuan quantity of crypto, the whole was the bottom since 2020.