North Korea tied for record $6.3 billion Binance hack, according to CNN and blockchain companies. Hackers emptied $6.36 billion from Binance hot wallets across 10 networks (mostly in about 20 minutes), the largest crypto theft on record - roughly 4x the 2025 Baybit incident also linked to Pyongyang. TRM Labs attributes the attack with high confidence to North Korea's elite Traderbog unit (linked to Lazarus), based on on-chain and off-chain intelligence; Chain and pangolin intelligence similarly point to a North Korean group. Binance confirmed a security incident involving a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop, suspended deposits/withdrawals, and said ~$3 billion was frozen on-chain. It will fully cover losses from company/SAFU funds; User funds are safe. North Korea has a long record of state-sponsored crypto thefts used to fund its weapons programs.

North Korea tied for record $6.3 billion Binance hack, according to CNN and blockchain companies. Hackers emptied $6.36 billion from Binance hot wallets across 10 networks (mostly in about 20 minutes), the largest crypto theft on record - roughly 4x the 2025 Baybit incident also linked to Pyongyang. TRM Labs attributes the attack with high confidence to North Korea's elite Traderbog unit (linked to Lazarus), based on on-chain and off-chain intelligence; Chain and pangolin intelligence similarly point to a North Korean group. Binance confirmed a security incident involving a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop, suspended deposits/withdrawals, and said ~$3 billion was frozen on-chain. It will fully cover losses from company/SAFU funds; User funds are safe. North Korea has a long record of state-sponsored crypto thefts used to fund its weapons programs.