Bitget CEO: North Korean hackers not ruled out in this attack, attribution still in preliminary investigation stage

Odaily News: Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated during a live Q&A session regarding the platform security incident that preliminary investigations found some related IP addresses match VPN services used by a certain North Korean hacker group, and the attack patterns bear similarities to the group's previous operations. Therefore, their involvement in this attack involving approximately $351.6 million cannot be ruled out, though the attacker's identity has not yet been definitively confirmed.

Gracy Chen stated that Bitget currently does not believe this incident involved an insider. The attackers transferred funds by compromising platform systems, did not forge user withdrawal requests, and did not obtain cold wallet or hot wallet private keys. The team is still investigating the specific affected systems and the attackers' method of intrusion.