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Two arrested after South Korean cops lost $1.4M in Bitcoin

  • Cointelegraph by Brian Quarmby--Cointelegraph
  • published date: 2026-02-27 06:14:25 UTC

Local police seized the Bitcoin in 2021 but stored it in a third-party wallet that was later compromised, with the theft going unnoticed for four years.

Two people have been arrested in South Korea in relation to a case in which police lost 22 seized Bitcoin, now worth $1.4 million, after storing the coins in a third-party cold wallet. The news of t… [+2035 chars]