{"id":72585,"date":"2023-01-16T16:19:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T14:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=72585"},"modified":"2025-09-09T01:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:34:46","slug":"binance-and-huobi-froze-2-58-million-in-btc-linked-to-the-harmony-one-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/binance-and-huobi-froze-2-58-million-in-btc-linked-to-the-harmony-one-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Binance and Huobi froze $2.58 million in BTC linked to the Harmony One hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Binance and Huobi security teams froze and restored access to 124 BTC worth $2.58 million, stolen in the Horizon cross-chain bridge hack valued at $100 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We detected Harmony One hacker fund movement. They previously tried to launder through Binance and we froze his accounts. This time he used Huobi. We assisted Huobi team to freeze his accounts. Together, 124 BTC have been recovered. CeFi helping to keep DeFi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SAFU?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SAFU<\/a>! \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CZ \ud83d\udd36 Binance (@cz_binance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cz_binance\/status\/1614887319177428992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u00abWe detected the hackers&#8217; movement of funds, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/harmony-one-how-the-blockchain-and-its-token-work\">attacking<\/a> Harmony One. Earlier they tried to launder money through Binance, and we froze their accounts. This time they used Huobi. We helped the exchange team block the assets\u00bb,<\/em> \u2014 said Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to analytics firm ZachXBT, on January 13-14 the attackers moved about 41,000 ETH tied to the hack, worth $63.5 million, through <span data-descr=\"a smart-contract system built without any bridges or second layer, which provides zk-SNARK privacy for any transaction or interaction of Ethereum smart contracts\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Railgun<\/span>, before consolidating the funds and depositing them on three different exchanges. Their names were not disclosed. The hackers used more than 350 addresses to do this.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/2 North Korea\u2019s Lazarus Group had a very busy weekend moving $63.5m (~41000 ETH) from the Harmony bridge hack through Railgun before consolidating funds and depositing on three different exchanges. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/huDumaJeSh\">pic.twitter.com\/huDumaJeSh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ZachXBT (@zachxbt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachxbt\/status\/1614771861266792449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Elliptic <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elliptic-lazarus-hackers-may-be-behind-horizon-attack\">believe<\/a> that the Horizon attack may be attributed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-address-linked-to-lazarus-group-sanctioned-by-us-hackers-tied-to-ronin-attack\">North Korea\u2013linked<\/a> Lazarus group. It is <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ronin-the-ethereum-sidechain-hacked-attacker-siphons-625-million\">involved<\/a> in the Ronin cross-chain bridge attack.<\/p>\n<p>In September, the Harmony <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/harmony-unveils-new-plan-to-reimburse-100-million-to-horizon-bridge-hack-victims\">unveiled<\/a> a new plan to compensate Horizon hack victims.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\u201d\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security teams at cryptocurrency exchanges Binance and Huobi froze and restored access to 124 BTC worth $2.58 million, stolen in the Horizon cross-chain bridge hack worth $100 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,2139,230],"class_list":["post-72585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-harmony-one","tag-huobi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72587,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72585\/revisions\/72587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}