{"id":18306,"date":"2026-04-02T00:02:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/de-fi-platform-drift-suspends-deposits-and-withdrawals-after-millions-in-crypto-stolen-in-hack\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:02:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:02:02","slug":"de-fi-platform-drift-suspends-deposits-and-withdrawals-after-millions-in-crypto-stolen-in-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/de-fi-platform-drift-suspends-deposits-and-withdrawals-after-millions-in-crypto-stolen-in-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"De-fi platform Drift suspends deposits and withdrawals after millions in crypto stolen in hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Decentralized finance company Drift says it has suspended withdrawals and deposits after confirming a security incident.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crypto platform said in a post on X that it was &ldquo;experiencing an active attack,&rdquo; and that it was working to &ldquo;contain the incident.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Security researchers and public blockchain data suggest the losses could be significant. Blockchain security firm CertiK said on X that hackers may have stolen around $136 million, while crypto analytics firm Arkham put the figure at around $285 million stolen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If confirmed, this would make the Drift hack the largest crypto theft of the year, according to the Rekt leaderboard, a site that tracks crypto thefts by size.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&rsquo;s not clear who is behind the attack, and a spokesperson for Drift did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Security firms say North Korea was behind the most crypto thefts last year, netting at least $2 billion in stolen cryptocurrency, funds the regime is believed to use to finance its nuclear weapons program and skirt international sanctions that restrict its access to the global financial system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub>De-fi platform Drift suspends deposits and withdrawals after millions in crypto stolen in hack<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decentralized finance company Drift says it has suspended withdrawals and deposits after confirming a security incident.&nbsp; The crypto platform said in a post on X that it was &ldquo;experiencing an active attack,&rdquo; and that it was working to &ldquo;contain the incident.&rdquo; Security researchers and public blockchain data suggest the losses could be significant. Blockchain security&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/de-fi-platform-drift-suspends-deposits-and-withdrawals-after-millions-in-crypto-stolen-in-hack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;De-fi platform Drift suspends deposits and withdrawals after millions in crypto stolen in hack&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}