Fellow Binancians,
Over the past 24 hours, our teams have been working around the clock to respond to a serious security incident involving unauthorized withdrawals of funds. At around 2026-10-29 20:05 (UTC), our hot wallets were compromised, resulting in a loss of approximately $6.3B USD worth of token assets.
We recognize the seriousness of this incident and the concern it has caused across our community. We are treating this as our highest priority. We have been working non-stop on security investigation, infrastructure system upgrading, fund loss prevention and recovery. In this update, we want to give a clear summary of what has been done in the last 24 hours and what we are working towards.
We want to be clear about our commitment: Binance will absorb the financial impact of these stolen funds, not our users.
Protecting Our Users
Our first priority is to ensure that users are protected. Binance will cover all stolen funds related to this incident through our Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) and our corporate treasury.
We have already set aside more than $6.34B in company funds, with $5B held in the exact impacted token assets that were stolen, such as USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, BNB, etc. This means that we have already covered approximately 80% of the impacted amount. We are actively buying the remaining relevant token assets through market and OTC channels. We will continue to provide updates on the progress on our official channels.
#Binance
Over the past 24 hours, our teams have been working around the clock to respond to a serious security incident involving unauthorized withdrawals of funds. At around 2026-10-29 20:05 (UTC), our hot wallets were compromised, resulting in a loss of approximately $6.3B USD worth of token assets.
We recognize the seriousness of this incident and the concern it has caused across our community. We are treating this as our highest priority. We have been working non-stop on security investigation, infrastructure system upgrading, fund loss prevention and recovery. In this update, we want to give a clear summary of what has been done in the last 24 hours and what we are working towards.
We want to be clear about our commitment: Binance will absorb the financial impact of these stolen funds, not our users.
Protecting Our Users
Our first priority is to ensure that users are protected. Binance will cover all stolen funds related to this incident through our Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) and our corporate treasury.
We have already set aside more than $6.34B in company funds, with $5B held in the exact impacted token assets that were stolen, such as USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, BNB, etc. This means that we have already covered approximately 80% of the impacted amount. We are actively buying the remaining relevant token assets through market and OTC channels. We will continue to provide updates on the progress on our official channels.
#Binance
