Bitget Hires Mandiant and SlowMist to Probe Security Incident, Pauses Withdrawals

Bringing in Mandiant and SlowMist signals Bitget is treating this as a serious breach rather than a routine glitch, and the choice of a self-custody wallet architecture as the firewall is the detail that matters most: it limits contagion to the exchange's own custody. The immediate pressure point is the withdrawal pause, since halted redemptions are what turn an incident into a confidence event. Whether the wallet separation holds up under scrutiny, and how quickly withdrawals resume, are the open questions.