Circle and Tether Freeze Stablecoins Tied to Bitget Hack—But Most Funds Slip Away
The two stablecoin issuers blacklisted a wallet labeled "Bitget Exploiter 8," locking about $318,000 in USDC and USDT—but the attacker swapped most funds into unfreezable ETH before they could act.
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Tether is showing up inside the Stablecoins theme, so this story is worth tracking for follow-through rather than treating it as a one-off headline.
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