By Alun John, Amanda Cooper, Hannah Lang LONDON (Reuters) -Bitcoin dropped below $90,000 to its lowest since November 18 on Tuesday, as market nerves over U.S. tariffs reinforced the blow to crypto investor confidence from last week's $1.

Bitcoin, BTC= the world's largest cryptocurrency by market value, broke below $90,000 to its lowest since November 18, falling by as much as 7.5% at one point. It was last down 5% on the day at $89,314.

Researchers spot the stolen funds moving through cryptocurrency wallets that were used in earlier heists attributed to North Korea's Lazarus hacking group.

Bitcoin headed for its biggest one-day drop since August on Tuesday, driven by nervousness over U.S. tariffs and results from Nvidia, as last week's hack of $1.5 billion worth of ether from the Bybit exchange delivered a blow to investor confidence.

Ben Zhou, Bybit's CEO, said that the hack had affected around 401,000 Ethereum and sparked a surge in withdrawal requests.

Bybit has officially filled the $1.4 billion hole left by one of the biggest crypto hacks in history. CEO Ben Zhou announced that the exchange

Some $1.5 billion in crypto was stolen from the Bybit exchange - sparking fear across the crypto-verse. This was the biggest crypto theft since $611 million vanished from Poly Net

Despite this being the biggest heist in crypto’s history, Zhou noted the company remains solvent and is under no existential threat, and commended the industry’s big players,

Bybit Faces Unprecedented Industry Response A major cryptocurrency exchange, Bybit, has suffered a massive security breach, leading to the theft of approximately $1.5 billion worth of Ethereum. The incident took place late Friday evening when hackers exploited a routine transfer of funds from a secure offline wallet to a daily-use wallet.