PANews reported on March 16 that according to News.bitcoin, after the hacker group Lazarus Group attacked Bybit, it began to convert some of the stolen assets into Bitcoin. Data shows that the group now owns 13,562 BTC, worth about $1.14 billion. This has also caused North Korea's Bitcoin holdings to continue to rise. It has now surpassed El Salvador (6,117 BTC) and Bhutan (10,635 BTC), becoming the third largest government entity in the world in terms of Bitcoin holdings, second only to the United States (198,109 BTC) and the United Kingdom (61,245 BTC).