North Korea just yoinked $1.5 billion from crypto bros to fund more missiles

North Korea just pulled off a digital heist that would make Bernie Madoff slobber in his grave.

Kim Jong-Un"s elite hacker squad snatched $1.5 billion in cryptocurrency from some exchange called Bybit. As The Telegraph reports, "the $1.5bn total eclipses the largest known bank theft of all time, when Saddam Hussein stole $1bn from the Iraqi central bank ahead of the Iraq War in 2003." — Read the rest

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