India, Feb. 27 -- Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has announced a bounty hunter programme to track and regain the $1.5 billion (about Rs.13,000 crore) in Etherium tokens that were stolen in a recent hack. According to reports, the hack was one of the world's largest-ever crypto thefts.

Bybit CEO and Co-founder Ben Zhou claimed North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un's crime ring Lazarus was behind the hack.

The company has set a total bounty of $1.4 million under the program and according to the program's website, bounty worth over $4.22 million has already been awarded to 12 hunters.

"The bounty will be awarded immediately once the funds are confirmed as frozen. The total bounty is 10 per cent of the recovered funds," the we...