#circle与tether冻结bitget黑客钱包
Circle and Tether froze $318,000 in a hacker’s address. In the same theft, losses totaled $387.5 million; four months ago, the same group used Circle’s own cross-chain bridge to move $232 million—it didn’t move.
▪️ 9/25 05:00 UTC, Circle first blacklisted the platform’s 8th attacker address, freezing 218,023 USDT + 99,990 USDC, and Tether followed
▪️ The same address also contains 170 ETH that can’t be frozen; other addresses still hold more than 63,000 ETH
▪️ On 4/1, Drift was stolen of $285 million, of which $232 million USDC went through Circle’s own CCTP bridge from Solana to Ethereum—over more than 100 transactions in six hours—it didn’t move
▪️ On 3/23, in minutes Circle froze 16 legitimate business wallets; cumulatively, Tether has frozen 5.69 billion, and Circle about 109 million—about a 30x difference
The disagreement isn’t whether they work together; it’s that the freeze power only takes effect for those few hours when the “tainted funds” have not yet been converted into ETH. Circle usually waits for court orders, but this time it acted first—because four months ago it didn’t act. The attackers took routes based on this map.
Is this time when its capabilities improved, or did it just happen to coincide with a few transfers that hadn’t been converted yet?
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Circle and Tether froze $318,000 in a hacker’s address. In the same theft, losses totaled $387.5 million; four months ago, the same group used Circle’s own cross-chain bridge to move $232 million—it didn’t move.
▪️ 9/25 05:00 UTC, Circle first blacklisted the platform’s 8th attacker address, freezing 218,023 USDT + 99,990 USDC, and Tether followed
▪️ The same address also contains 170 ETH that can’t be frozen; other addresses still hold more than 63,000 ETH
▪️ On 4/1, Drift was stolen of $285 million, of which $232 million USDC went through Circle’s own CCTP bridge from Solana to Ethereum—over more than 100 transactions in six hours—it didn’t move
▪️ On 3/23, in minutes Circle froze 16 legitimate business wallets; cumulatively, Tether has frozen 5.69 billion, and Circle about 109 million—about a 30x difference
The disagreement isn’t whether they work together; it’s that the freeze power only takes effect for those few hours when the “tainted funds” have not yet been converted into ETH. Circle usually waits for court orders, but this time it acted first—because four months ago it didn’t act. The attackers took routes based on this map.
Is this time when its capabilities improved, or did it just happen to coincide with a few transfers that hadn’t been converted yet?
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