Cryptocurrency exchange Binance revealed the circumstances of the hack, which resulted in the theft of $6.3 billion. The attack began not with direct access to the trading system, but with infecting an employee's computer with malicious code during a fictitious interview. The attackers used human contact as a way to penetrate the company's infrastructure.
After the incident, the exchange replaced 98% of the stolen assets from the company's funds and its hedge funds. The exchange required significant internal resources to compensate. The scale of the compensation shows how expensive a single successful attack using a working device can be.
The consequences also affected the movement of customer funds. After resuming operations, the net flow of funds from the platform in the first 46 hours was $5.3 billion. Thus, the exchange simultaneously faced the need to recover stolen assets and large-scale withdrawal of capital by customers after the opening of operations.