Ben Zhou, Bybit's CEO, said that the hack had affected around 401,000 Ethereum and sparked a surge in withdrawal requests.

The crypto industry is rallying to recover funds stolen in the $1.5 billion Bybit hack, with exchanges freezing nearly $43 million just two days after the attack. A coordinated effort among centralized and decentralized platforms has led to the swift blacklisting of hacker-linked addresses,

Bybit, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, experienced a hack Friday in which over $1.4 billion worth of crypto was stolen, according to blockchain-analytics firms. It’s the latest incident for an industry struggling with security concerns that present hurdles to mainstream adoption.