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BitMart founder Sheldon Xia confirmed the November 2 attack and admitted that the platform's security team is "severely understaffed." The exchange itself has been heading toward closure since July and still has not settled with clients.
The Brazilian crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin has announced the date for the phased return of clients - November 9. The new estimate of what was stolen has risen to $48.6 million versus about $46 million in the first hours after the hack.
On October 29, about $6.3 billion was withdrawn from Binance wallets across several blockchains. Tether, the issuer of the largest stablecoin (a coin whose exchange rate is pegged to the dollar), said it managed to immobilize more than $1.5 billion of the stolen USDT.
