Crypto’s Hack Wave Widens: Mercado Bitcoin Halts Withdrawals as a $133 Million EU Theft Surfaces

Mercado Bitcoin halted deposits and withdrawals after a security incident, and ZachXBT traced more than $133 million taken from an unnamed EU entity's exchange accounts. Two more suspected thefts surfaced this week, days after the Binance breach. Brazil’s largest crypto exchange, Mercado Bitcoin, suspended deposits and withdrawals on Monday after a security incident, and on-chain investigator ZachXBT says more than $133 million has been taken from exchange accounts belonging to an unnamed European Union entity. Neither case is on the scale of Binance’s $6.34 billion loss, and in both the key facts are still being established.