Bitget hack (September 2026): what the public records showBitcoin / U.S. dollarBITSTAMP:BTCUSDtakamecheckThis is not a market view on BTC or any token. It is a look at what public records say after a large exchange hack, and what you can check yourself before moving money. On 24 September 2026 Bitget reported a security breach affecting its hot wallets. Early reports put the loss at about $352 million; Bitget later said about $388 million in assets were affected, and the DefiLlama hacks dataset lists $387 million. Bitget said user funds are safe and that losses would be covered by its User Protection Fund. Those are the exchange's own statements, not findings by a regulator or an auditor. Why the figures differ: reports were written at different times, and some count only what had left the wallets while others count all assets Bitget says were affected. Where the funds went: TRM Labs traced them across seven blockchains and says the attack was likely carried out by North Korea-linked actors. Circle and Tether froze about $318,000 in USDC and USDT, but most of the funds had already been swapped into ether, which cannot be frozen. What official records show: Japan's Financial Services Agency has named Bitget Limited on its list of operators serving Japanese residents without registration, and Bitget appears on the investor alert list of Malaysia's Securities Commission. A FINTRAC registration for Canada Bitget Limited shows as withdrawn (a FINTRAC registration is an anti-money-laundering filing, not a license). None of the registers we read shows an active license for Bitget. What you can check yourself before moving money: 1. Whether withdrawals are open again, from the exchange's own status page or announcements, not from social media posts. 2. Which legal entity serves you in your country, and whether that entity appears on your regulator's own register. 3. Whether the exchange publishes a proof of reserves, and what it covers. 4. Whether any regulator warnings apply to your country. This is the public record, not a verdict on whether an exchange is safe.