from Hacker News

North Korea Responsible for Theft of $308M USD from Bitcoin.DMM.com

by gkanai on 12/24/24, 1:01 AM with 10 comments

• by doright on 12/24/24, 5:15 AM

  > the Japan-based cryptocurrency company DMM

  I thought DMM was a much larger conglomerate of online services like gaming/shopping, that crypto is now apparently a part of since last I checked.

• by kristianp on 12/24/24, 8:02 AM

  Look like they detected this after the fact, and the bitcoin has not been recovered.

• by jaronheard on 12/24/24, 7:57 AM

  This is over 1% of North Korea's annual GDP, for scale.

• by djyaz1200 on 12/24/24, 4:49 PM

  If the FBI is going to police crypto, we need to tax it. Otherwise, let their community figure it out.

• by mensetmanusman on 12/24/24, 3:46 AM

  Lots of people get scammed. Bitcoin scamming will only increase as it gains value.