A hacker stole up to $83 million worth of XRP from crypto exchange Bitget and rapidly moved the funds across addresses, with about 54 million XRP leaving the original five wallets. Bitget confirmed the major security incident and is cooperating with police. Ripple said its decentralized underlying network cannot be used to forcibly freeze specific external accounts, even if law enforcement becomes involved, leaving Bitget and its hired security teams responsible for recovering the assets.