According to PANews, blockchain intelligence company TRM reported that the amount of cryptocurrency stolen through hackers and network vulnerabilities more than doubled to $1.38 billion in the first half of 2023. Among them, five large attacks accounted for 70% of the stolen cryptocurrency. However, this figure is still lower than the nearly $2 billion in the first half of 2022, which was also a record year for cryptocurrency theft. Hackers mainly steal cryptocurrencies by obtaining encrypted strings such as private keys and seed codes. The largest attack this year occurred on the Japanese exchange DMM Bitcoin, with more than $300 million worth of bitcoins stolen, more than 4,500 tokens. At present, the cause of the attack has not yet been determined.
