A job interview ended in a $6.34 billion hack of Binance.
A job offer. A video call. A coding test. And a trap that helped compromise billions in cryptocurrency. This really happened. On October 29, 2026, Binance suffered an attack that affected approximately $6.34 billion in digital assets. But what’s surprising is how it began. How did it happen? In September, a Binance engineer received an apparently legitimate job offer. They took part in interviews and received a technical test: download and run a coding project.