ReportedUpdated 3 Nov 2026
Binance hack
What happened
About $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency was stolen from Binance in what might be the biggest crypto hack in history.
Reported impact
An affected population has not been established in the accepted evidence.
- Attack method
- compromised DevOps engineer's laptop
Source evidence
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Published 30 Oct 2026Retrieved 3 Nov 2026
About $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency was stolen from Binance in what might be the biggest crypto hack in history.
Attributed reporting
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Binance’s initial investigation suggests that the security incident may involve a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop, which allowed an attacker to gain access to a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions
Attributed reporting
Updates and corrections
- Revision 1
Incident updated.