{"id":662290,"date":"2026-09-25T17:53:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/bitget-clarifies-388m-in-assets-affected-by-security-breach\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T17:53:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:53:39","slug":"bitget-clarifies-388m-in-assets-affected-by-security-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/bitget-clarifies-388m-in-assets-affected-by-security-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitget clarifies $388M in assets affected by security breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/09\/01M3CQDGGFK82WPW7Q372S69XX\/hi-why-spot-the-typo-is-no-longer-enough-for-crypto-security.jpg\" alt=\"Bitget clarifies $388M in assets affected by security breach\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Bitget breach announced on Thursday affected about $35 million more than previously reported, based on an analysis of assets on Zcash and TRON.<\/p>\n<p>Crypto exchange Bitget released an updated incident report on Thursday\u2019s security breach, clarifying that about $388 million in assets had been affected and not $352 million as previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>In a Friday update, Bitget <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitget.com\/support\/articles\/12560603896108\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> it would continue to pause withdrawals following the security breach, and the company had launched a bounty program to incentivize freezing or recovering the assets. The exchange confirmed that \u201c$387.5 million were transferred to attacker-controlled addresses\u201d based on onchain tracing \u2014 about $35 million more than reported on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe revised figure reflects a more complete accounting of transfers that occurred during the incident, adding affected assets on Zcash and TRON that were not included in the initial estimate,\u201d said Bitget. \u201cIt does not reflect further unauthorized transfers. The incident remains contained and no further unauthorized transfers are possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitget-clarifies-assets-affected-security-breach\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bitget breach announced on Thursday affected about $35 million more than previously reported, based on an analysis of assets on Zcash and TRON. Crypto exchange Bitget released an updated incident report on Thursday\u2019s security breach, clarifying that about $388 million in assets had been affected and not $352 million as previously reported. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":662291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-662290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662290","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=662290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}