🇿🇦 English, 30 October 2026, exchange hack
Binance hit by $6.3bn crypto-currency hack
Hackers targeted Binance wallets across 10 blockchains, stealing an estimated $6.3 billion in crypto-currency.
Binance’s initial investigation points to a possible compromise involving a DevOps engineer’s laptop, with the attacker potentially using access to a service container to submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions.
The exchange has temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals while conducting security checks and has revoked the affected address authorization.
TRM Labs attributes the attack to TraderTraitor, a North Korean state-sponsored hacking group, based on high-confidence on-chain and off-chain intelligence.