About $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency was stolen from Binance in what might be the biggest crypto hack in history. “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,” the exchange said in a security update published early on October 30.
Binance hit by $6.3 billion theft in what could be the biggest crypto heist on record
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