CryptoQuant CEO: If private keys could be inferred from addresses, "besides North Korea's Lazarus, no one could do it."

Regarding Upbit's incident of approximately 44.5 billion KRW (about 36 million USD) in cryptocurrency being stolen, CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju stated today that the attack method disclosed by Upbit is "almost impossible for an ordinary hacker to accomplish."

Upbit previously mentioned that the attackers might have "inferred the private keys" by analyzing the patterns of user wallet addresses. Ki Young Ju bluntly remarked that the difficulty of such attack techniques is extremely high, and if this is true, "I suspect that no hacker organization other than North Korea's Lazarus could achieve this."