Cybercriminals stole $1.7 billion from crypto funds in 2023 as attacks proliferated

Hackers siphoned $1.7 billion from cryptocurrency platforms in 2023 — down by about $2 billion from a record high set the previous year, according to data collected by blockchain research firm Chainalysis. Despite the drop in total money lost, the number of individual incidents targeting these platforms grew from 219 in 2022 to 231 in

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