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Craig Hale

It's been a huge year for criminals stealing cryptocurrency - and North Korea was largely to blame

Cryptocurrency.

  • $2.2 billion worth of cryptocurrency was stolen in 2024, up 21% year-on-year, report claims
  • More than 300 separate incidents were tracked, 10x that of 2018 and 2019, Chainalysis found
  • North Korea blamed for $1.34 billion in stolen crypto
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