The FBI has confirmed that North Korean state-sponsored hackers known as TraderTraitor were behind the $6.3 billion crypto-theft attack on Binance, making it the largest cryptocurrency heist on record.
FBI links $6.3 billion Binance crypto heist to North Korean hackers
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