💸 Binance suffers the biggest crypto heist in history: $6.3 billion
Binance preliminarily estimated losses of around $6.3 billion after attackers compromised the laptop of a technology operations engineer. The funds were withdrawn from wallets across 10 blockchains, mostly within just 20 minutes, without the platform detecting any leak of its private keys.
Nearly $3 billion was frozen: Tether blocked almost $1.57 billion, Circle more than $800 million, and Ripple around $200 million. TRM Labs attributed the attack to the North Korean group TraderTraitor.
The heist exceeds the previous record—the $1.5 billion stolen from Bybit in 2025—by more than four times. Binance said it would cover the losses using its SAFU insurance fund and its own resources, and would restore withdrawals within 48 hours.
Following the attack, bitcoin briefly fell below $78,000, and leveraged positions—trades financed with debt—worth around $1.4 billion were liquidated during the day.
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Binance preliminarily estimated losses of around $6.3 billion after attackers compromised the laptop of a technology operations engineer. The funds were withdrawn from wallets across 10 blockchains, mostly within just 20 minutes, without the platform detecting any leak of its private keys.
Nearly $3 billion was frozen: Tether blocked almost $1.57 billion, Circle more than $800 million, and Ripple around $200 million. TRM Labs attributed the attack to the North Korean group TraderTraitor.
The heist exceeds the previous record—the $1.5 billion stolen from Bybit in 2025—by more than four times. Binance said it would cover the losses using its SAFU insurance fund and its own resources, and would restore withdrawals within 48 hours.
Following the attack, bitcoin briefly fell below $78,000, and leveraged positions—trades financed with debt—worth around $1.4 billion were liquidated during the day.
#HackerAlert #market #BinanceSquare #BinanceSquareFamily #hackattack $BNB $TCOM
