ReportedUpdated 3 Nov 2026
Binance Hack
What happened
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has been hit by the biggest crypto heist ever recorded, with blockchain intelligence firms attributing the attack to North Korean state-sponsored hackers.
Reported impact
An affected population has not been established in the accepted evidence.
- Attack method
- social engineering and exploitation of vulnerabilities in Binance's systems.
Source evidence
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SecurityWeek01$6 Billion Binance Hack Bears Hallmarks of North Korea's TraderTraitor - SecurityWeek
Published 30 Oct 2026Retrieved 3 Nov 2026
Binance has put the damage at roughly $6.3 billion.
Attributed reporting
2 more excerpts
TRM Labs, which followed each transfer on-chain, calculated about $6.36 billion siphoned from Binance wallets across ten blockchains on October 29.
Attributed reporting
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.