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According to Darcy, co-founder of FlashRescue, approximately $22 million in illicit funds flowed into the cryptocurrency exchange HitBTC in 2026. He pointed out that during two instances of cooperating with police investigations, HitBTC refused to assist in the verification process, and multiple on-chain investigators reported that this is a consistent practice of the platform.He mentioned that in the Bybit theft case, as much as $3.68 million from a money laundering network linked to the DPRK (North Korea) flowed into HitBTC, but the platform also did not cooperate with relevant authorities for further investigation.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin (@EmberCN), a Kraken user is suspected of falling victim to a social engineering attack, resulting in the theft of 8,662 ETH, worth approximately $18.19 million. The attacker then exchanged 878 ETH for 26.5 BTC using the cross-chain tool THORChain, and six hours later transferred all stolen assets (7,784 ETH + 26.5 BTC) to the HitBTC exchange.

According to Arkham data, at 20:18, 16.7621 million 1INCH (worth approximately $2.2729 million) was transferred from TrustedVolumes to the deposit address of HitBTC. Subsequently, that address transferred 17.4569 million 1INCH to HitBTC.

According to Arkham data, at 01:46, 24.99 WBTC (worth approximately 2.38 million USD) was transferred from HitBTC to Binance.

According to Arkham data, at 16:44, 24.47 WBTC (worth approximately 2.33 million USD) was transferred from HitBTC to Binance.

According to Arkham data, at 09:32, 157.57 BTC (worth approximately 14.4 million USD) was transferred from an anonymous address (starting with bc1q47h06...) to another anonymous address (starting with bc1qpn3dga...). Subsequently, that address transferred some BTC to HitBTC.

According to official news from SlowMist, the agency has discovered potential serious security vulnerabilities at the HitBTC exchange. SlowMist stated that it has disclosed relevant information to HitBTC in advance via private message, but has not yet received a response.

According to Arkham data, at 11:53, 127.33 BTC (worth approximately $11,166,500) was transferred from an anonymous address (starting with bc1qszfdx...) to another anonymous address (starting with bc1qhlwj...). Subsequently, that address transferred a portion of the BTC (0.02 BTC) to HitBTC.

According to Arkham data, at 16:01, 29.04987 WBTC (worth approximately $2.6185 million) was transferred from HitBTC to Binance.

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale has deposited 2,000 ETH (worth about $6.04 million) into HitBTC after being silent for 4 years, currently facing an unrealized loss of about $2.59 million.This whale initially purchased these ETH through over-the-counter (OTC) trading for $8.63 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to monitoring by Cyvers, the ZKsync hacker has transferred 1.7 million tokens across chains to ETH and deposited 10 ETH into a HitBTC address.

ChainCatcher news, according to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, monitored that at 23:41 Beijing time today, 410 ETH was transferred from HitBTC to an unknown wallet, worth 1.4515 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, monitored at 22:26 Beijing time today, 400 ETH (approximately 1.2101 million USD) was transferred from HitBTC to an unknown wallet.

ChainCatcher news, MistTrack tweeted that it has discovered hitbt2c.lol is a counterfeit HitBTC website, and hackers have stolen $15 million worth of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, and more. The site requests unlimited permission to control the assets in the connected wallet and steals cryptocurrencies. (Source link)