$6.3 Billion Stolen from Binance in Attack Attributed to North Korea

Reported by Security Affairs (Pierluigi Paganini)

Summary by Cyber Security News30 Oct 2026, 19:50 CET

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Binance links a $6.3 billion crypto theft to a compromised DevOps laptop, with North Korean hackers blamed by blockchain analysts. Binance was investigating suspicious transfers that early estimates put at up to $5.8 billion. A day later, multiple media outlets reported that the largest cryptocurrency exchange had linked the theft of about $6.3 billion to a DevOps engineer’s compromised laptop.

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