Bybit has already paid more than $4 million to bounty hunters who helped trace and freeze some of the stolen funds.

According to Bybit's holdings, that amounts to $1.5 billion in cryptocurrency that was stolen from Bybit and its customers, making this the largest ever cryptocurrency theft. However, as Molly White of Web3IsGoingGreat points out, the hacker can't exactly cash out $1.5 billion in Ethereum, because an amount that high would crash the value of ETH.

Lazarus Group, hackers based in North Korea, tricked Bybit CEO Ben Zhou into approving a transfer of 400,000 ethereum tokens from his company's cold wallet.

Following the revelation Friday from cryptocurrency exchange firm Bybit that hackers stole digital tokens worth about $1.5 billion – in what may be the biggest crypto heist of all time – CEO Ben Zhou wrote on X Sunday that it has replenished its reserves. Bybit was able to do this through a mix of emergency loans and large deposits.

Researchers spot the stolen funds moving through cryptocurrency wallets that were used in earlier heists attributed to North Korea's Lazarus hacking group.

Some $1.5 billion in crypto was stolen from the Bybit exchange - sparking fear across the crypto-verse. This was the biggest crypto theft since $611 million vanished from Poly Net

On today's episode of CNBC Crypto World, crypto prices slip after a record-breaking hack of crypto exchange Bybit. Plus, Robinhood says the SEC has dismissed its investigation into the platform's crypto arm as the agency pivots to more crypto-friendly policy.

Last week, crypto exchange Bybit fell victim to a hacking. In the process, digital robbers made off with crypto worth as much as 1.4 billion euros. This would be the “largest digital heist” ever, according to blockchain analysis company Elliptic.