{"id":640524,"date":"2026-08-08T17:24:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=837921"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:24:39","slug":"bybit-unleashes-rico-lawsuit-on-north-korea-over-1-5b-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/bybit-unleashes-rico-lawsuit-on-north-korea-over-1-5b-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Bybit Unleashes RICO Lawsuit on North Korea Over $1.5B Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bybit-unleashes-rico-lawsuit-on-north-korea-over-1-5b-hack-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bybit log and North Korean flag\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>The cryptocurrency exchange platform Bybit has sued North Korea in a U.S. federal court over last year&#8217;s record-breaking $1.5 billion hack. The company filed the civil lawsuit under seal on June 18, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It became public this week. The suit names the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency exchange platform Bybit has sued North Korea in a U.S. federal court over last year&#8217;s record-breaking $1.5 billion hack. The company filed the civil lawsuit under seal on June 18, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It became public this week. The suit names the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":640525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-640524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}