FBI announces: Binance lost over $6 billion to North Korea’s TraderTraitor
Just yesterday, the FBI officially pointed the finger at North Korea.
Binance was robbed of more than $6 billion around October 29. The FBI directly named North Korea as responsible and dubbed the campaign “TraderTraitor.” The FBI, Secret Service, and IRS Criminal Investigation Division observed that the hackers were mainly converting the stolen funds into ETH, and will most likely use DeFi and instant-exchange services to continue laundering the money.
This is the largest crypto theft in history, dwarfing last year’s $1.5 billion Bybit hack. The FBI also published hundreds of associated ETH, BTC, and SOL addresses, and urged THORChain nodes, RPC nodes, instant-exchange platforms, DeFi services, and blockchain analytics firms to block transactions linked to these addresses.
Trump previously said, “We’re investigating whether North Korea was behind it.” Now it’s pretty much confirmed.
Binance has pledged to cover the losses in full, and user funds appear to be safe for now. But this is yet another reminder: even the biggest CEX can have its hot wallet drained within minutes once it’s breached. North Korea’s “steal to fund its nuclear program” operation has become very sophisticated.
The General’s troops are no joke
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Just yesterday, the FBI officially pointed the finger at North Korea.
Binance was robbed of more than $6 billion around October 29. The FBI directly named North Korea as responsible and dubbed the campaign “TraderTraitor.” The FBI, Secret Service, and IRS Criminal Investigation Division observed that the hackers were mainly converting the stolen funds into ETH, and will most likely use DeFi and instant-exchange services to continue laundering the money.
This is the largest crypto theft in history, dwarfing last year’s $1.5 billion Bybit hack. The FBI also published hundreds of associated ETH, BTC, and SOL addresses, and urged THORChain nodes, RPC nodes, instant-exchange platforms, DeFi services, and blockchain analytics firms to block transactions linked to these addresses.
Trump previously said, “We’re investigating whether North Korea was behind it.” Now it’s pretty much confirmed.
Binance has pledged to cover the losses in full, and user funds appear to be safe for now. But this is yet another reminder: even the biggest CEX can have its hot wallet drained within minutes once it’s breached. North Korea’s “steal to fund its nuclear program” operation has become very sophisticated.
The General’s troops are no joke
#币安safu基金完成7499枚btc转移