Crypto Chaos! Upbit Locks Up with $37M Salty Hack 😱💸

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Upbit now back in action after space-alien-sized Solana breach, offering rainbow creams pots of dollops for damages. 🌌🔐

Upbit, that clever little crypto friend, will spring back to life on December 1-unless some ghostbuster with a laser pointer zaps it again. Last time, a rogue blob of Solana code slurped up $37 million. In a panic, Upbit threw its deposit addresses into the trash, telling users to craft new ones. “Stupid security,” they cried, “let’s paint the town safer!” 🧹🎉

Big Reboot: Upbit’s Return to the Magic Forest 🌲

The mighty CEO vowed not to let users cry in their crypto cradles. Out of Upbit’s piggy-bank (which smelled like spicy zaftig zaftig bacon), they’ll foot the bill. Regulators now play detective, suspecting lavish ninjas of North Korea-who dipped their chopsticks in the Solana stew. They transformed stolen coins into USDC, then jangled them across Ethereum’s bridge, like a magician’s hat full of rabbits. 🎩🐇

Investigators gasped: the hackers wore admin hats! They leaned into the system like sly pies, making transfers look like a hamster’s jazzercise routine. On-chain whispers say this was the same crew as 2019. “As reliably spooky as a decade of pumpkin spice lattes,” the sleuths muttered. 🎃📜

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Upbit’s winter-warmth comeback is as slow as Grandpa’s creaky rocking chair. First, they’re rebooting assets on Akash and Ethereum. “Don’t rush the rocking!” they chant. Meanwhile, users must now make new deposit addresses-old ones are as dead as a dodo’s diary. Dunamu doodles a “full reimbursement” blob on their wall to keep folks calm. 🐦📜

Regulators: Crypto’s Cleaning Crew Arrives 🧹

The inspectors are here, brandishing clipboards bigger than Unicorns’ manes. Starting Dec 5, they’ll poke Upbit’s backoffice, sniffing for loose admin password trails. “This isn’t a cyber-forest-it’s a cyber-jungle, and we’re the monkeys with clipboards,” they declared. Upbit, being the helpful porcupine, froze some stolen funds to aid the hunters. 🐵🛠️

Meanwhile, markets trembled like a penguin in the Sahara. Bitcoin and Ethereum were already climate change disaster chums. The hack made the crypto sky go all tangerine with worry. Experts yelled, “Exchanges need skin thicker than a crocodile’s!” and suggested “monitoring schemes as tight as a clam’s grip.” ☕🚀

Upbit’s quick cash-rescue ritual stopped panic in its tracks. Still, the hack’s a wake-up call-exchanges need more “jazz hands” in their defenses. “If you’re not dancing with cyber-flourishes, you’re just wobbling to doom,” said the sage emporium of wallets. 🧚♂️🕺

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2025-12-01 11:06