$388M Bitget Hack Pushes Q3 Crypto Losses Past $1B

Bitget’s $388M hack pushes Q3 crypto security losses past $1B

Cointelegraph (rss)  ·  Score: 0.759  ·  neutral

Bitget lost $388 million in a single hack, taking total Q3 crypto security losses past $1.26 billion. That makes this one of the largest quarterly setbacks for industry infrastructure in recent history. There are no tickers directly cited, but the dollar figure eclipses anything else moving markets today.

The hack comes as crypto prices trade with a Greed-level sentiment: the industry is more interested in Theta and FOMO than in risk management. Still, with this scale of loss (over $1 billion in a quarter), infrastructure trust is on the line, no matter what the price tickers say.

For traders, this changes the calculus—ignoring security events when Greed is already at 72 is dangerous. Black swan tail risk isn’t priced in, and the market reaction to such a large loss is often delayed, not missed.

Bottom line: $1.26B vanished in Q3—ignore infra hacks at your own risk.

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