⭕ **The Biggest Cryptocurrency Heist in History**
🔹 Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, confirmed this morning that it had been hit by an unprecedented cyberattack.
🔹 The incident has reportedly surpassed the $1.5 billion Bybit exchange hack in 2025, making it the largest cryptocurrency theft in digital currency history.
**How much was stolen?**
🔸 Hackers reportedly managed to withdraw approximately **$6.36 billion worth of assets** from Binance's hot wallets in just 20 minutes.
🔹 Binance's response reportedly resulted in around **$3 billion worth of the stolen assets being frozen on the blockchain**. However, the attackers converted a significant portion of the stolen Tether (USDT) into Ethereum and Bitcoin.
🔹 They are currently believed to hold more than **420,000 ETH and 18,270 BTC**.
**Who was behind the hack?**
🔹 Cybersecurity and blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs has attributed the sophisticated attack, with a high degree of confidence, to the hacking group **TraderTraitor**, which is linked to North Korea.
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