{"id":117126,"date":"2026-06-25T11:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/1-5-billion-crypto-connection-how-north-korean-heist-ended-in-irans-central-bank\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:36:18","slug":"1-5-billion-crypto-connection-how-north-korean-heist-ended-in-irans-central-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/1-5-billion-crypto-connection-how-north-korean-heist-ended-in-irans-central-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.5 billion-crypto connection: How North Korean heist ended in Iran&#8217;s central bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive crypto heist, initially linked to North Korea, has unraveled a complex financial web connecting to Iran&#8217;s central bank. Investigators discovered stolen funds moving through wallets associated with Iran&#8217;s central bank before reaching CoinEx, a key exchange facilitating Iranian crypto users. This revelation underscores the growing role of digital assets in Iran and the challenges in monitoring cross-border transactions.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive crypto heist, initially linked to North Korea, has unraveled a complex financial web connecting to Iran&#8217;s central bank. Investigators discovered stolen funds moving through wallets associated with Iran&#8217;s central bank before reaching CoinEx, a key exchange facilitating Iranian crypto users. This revelation underscores the growing role of digital assets in Iran and the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/1-5-billion-crypto-connection-how-north-korean-heist-ended-in-irans-central-bank\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">$1.5 billion-crypto connection: How North Korean heist ended in Iran&#8217;s central bank<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":117127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}