The page states that Circle froze 823M USDC at 21:04 UTC.
21:04 | Circle freezes 823M USDC.
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21:04 | Circle freezes 823M USDC.
Tether, USDT | Ethereum | 21:01:35 | 37 min | 971.1 million at freeze, about 1.18 billion by later reads as sweeps kept landing in the frozen hub
Tether froze 971.1 million USDT in the main receiving wallet at 21:01 UTC, 37 minutes after the main sweep. Later sweeps landed in the frozen wallet, which now holds 1.175 billion USDT.
21:01 | Tether freezes 971.1M USDT, 37 minutes after the Ethereum transaction.
The stolen USDT reached the attacker's main Ethereum wallet at 20:24 UTC. Tether froze that wallet 37 minutes later, locking 1.18 billion USDT in place, and then followed the funds, freezing four more attacker addresses within 17 minutes. Circle froze the 823 million USDC in the same wallet three minutes after that.
The suspected breach has already prompted stablecoin issuers Tether and Circle to freeze more than $2.3 billion in assets associated with the incident.
About $3B was frozen within hours, while most of the ETH and other native assets stayed with the attacker.
Between $2.7B and $2.84B was frozen within hours , almost all of it stablecoins that issuers such as Tether and Circle can block.