**Upbit Hack: North Korea Behind It**

- South Korean investigators have confirmed that North Korean hackers Lazarus and Andariel were responsible for the theft of $50 million worth of ETH from Upbit in 2019. 🎯

- The incident was reported five years ago, with 342,000 ETH stolen. The current value of this ETH is 1.47 trillion won.

- A joint investigation with the FBI found IP addresses and other traces from North Korea. 57% of ETH was converted to Bitcoin through exchanges controlled by North Korea.

- South Korean police recovered 4.8 Bitcoins from a Swiss exchange, worth about 600 million won, and returned them to Upbit.

- Upbit has increased security after the incident, but still faced over 159,000 attacks in the first half of 2023. 🚀