🚨 HISTORY'S BIGGEST CRYPTO HEIST: Binance Loses $6.3 BILLION
On Oct 29, $6.3B left Binance hot wallets in just 20 minutes.
It's now the LARGEST crypto theft ever - 4x bigger than Bybit's $1.5B hack.
How did it happen? Not code. People.
Binance's own report says:
1. JUNE: An engineer downloaded a poisoned AI coding tool via Homebrew. Infected.
2. SEPTEMBER: 2nd engineer targeted via FAKE job interview on a legit site. HR + CEO interviews. All fake. Laptop compromised.
3. OCT 29: Hackers got into Binance's internal AI assistant -> reached wallet-signing service.
They used EIP-7702 trick. One transaction with just $15 in fees moved $2.5 BILLION in one go.
Who?
FBI officially attributes it to TraderTraitor - North Korea's Lazarus Group unit. North Korea denies it.
What now?
- ∼$2.85B to $3B FROZEN by Tether, Circle and partners
- Binance: User funds are SAFU. 95% already replaced via SAFU fund + company treasury
- Withdrawals resumed Nov 1 - but users withdrew $3.64B net outflow in 9 hours
- Market impact: BTC fell below $78k
Lesson: In 2026, hackers don't break blockchain. They break humans.
Your keys were never leaked, but 1 compromised laptop cost $6.3B.
Stay safe. Never click job assignment files, never download cracked AI tools.
What do you think - can CEXs ever be 100% safe?
#HackerAlert # #AmundiAdds$72.3MInStrategyShares #CANProtocol
On Oct 29, $6.3B left Binance hot wallets in just 20 minutes.
It's now the LARGEST crypto theft ever - 4x bigger than Bybit's $1.5B hack.
How did it happen? Not code. People.
Binance's own report says:
1. JUNE: An engineer downloaded a poisoned AI coding tool via Homebrew. Infected.
2. SEPTEMBER: 2nd engineer targeted via FAKE job interview on a legit site. HR + CEO interviews. All fake. Laptop compromised.
3. OCT 29: Hackers got into Binance's internal AI assistant -> reached wallet-signing service.
They used EIP-7702 trick. One transaction with just $15 in fees moved $2.5 BILLION in one go.
Who?
FBI officially attributes it to TraderTraitor - North Korea's Lazarus Group unit. North Korea denies it.
What now?
- ∼$2.85B to $3B FROZEN by Tether, Circle and partners
- Binance: User funds are SAFU. 95% already replaced via SAFU fund + company treasury
- Withdrawals resumed Nov 1 - but users withdrew $3.64B net outflow in 9 hours
- Market impact: BTC fell below $78k
Lesson: In 2026, hackers don't break blockchain. They break humans.
Your keys were never leaked, but 1 compromised laptop cost $6.3B.
Stay safe. Never click job assignment files, never download cracked AI tools.
What do you think - can CEXs ever be 100% safe?
#HackerAlert # #AmundiAdds$72.3MInStrategyShares #CANProtocol