{"id":680207,"date":"2026-11-03T08:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/suspected-eu-crypto-theft-estimate-rises-to-133m-zachxbt\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T08:52:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:52:51","slug":"suspected-eu-crypto-theft-estimate-rises-to-133m-zachxbt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/suspected-eu-crypto-theft-estimate-rises-to-133m-zachxbt\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected EU crypto theft estimate rises to $133M: ZachXBT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/11\/01M6G79AN04CQ92B4R0XV30XJ8\/hack-2.jpg\" alt=\"Suspected EU crypto theft estimate rises to $133M: ZachXBT\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ZachXBT identified another $27 million in exchange withdrawals, some of which occurred after he first flagged the suspected crypto theft.<\/p>\n<p>Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has raised his estimate of a suspected crypto theft from an unidentified European Union entity to more than $133 million.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, ZachXBT <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/investigations\/374\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> he identified another $27 million in withdrawals from centralized exchanges, increasing the suspected losses from the $106 million <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/zachxbt-flags-suspected-106m-crypto-theft-as-solana-bot-faces-possible-786k-drain\">he initially reported on Monday<\/a>. He said some withdrawals occurred after his primary disclosure. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy working theory is a large financial institution in Western Europe was exploited and it\u2019s currently being covered up,\u201d ZachXBT said Tuesday on his Telegram channel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/zachxbt-eu-crypto-theft-133m-alleged-cover-up\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZachXBT identified another $27 million in exchange withdrawals, some of which occurred after he first flagged the suspected crypto theft. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has raised his estimate of a suspected crypto theft from an unidentified European Union entity to more than $133 million. On Tuesday, ZachXBT said he identified another $27 million in withdrawals from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":680208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-680207","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\/680207","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=680207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}