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

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 26, 2025
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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 tota…

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