🪙️ - The biggest crypto heist in history: $6.3 billion.
What is known:
- Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has temporarily suspended all deposit operations and resumed following a hack and resulting damage of $6.3 billion.
- According to Binance, the attacker gained access to a service container after hacking a DevOps engineer's laptop.
- With access to the service container, the hacker was able to send transactions and withdraw funds without authorization. The exchange found no evidence of private keys being leaked from wallets.
- Crypto analysts at TRM Labs claim that Binance was hacked by the TraderTraitor group, which is linked to North Korean hackers Lazarus. The FBI previously accused this group of stealing $1.5 billion from the Bybit exchange in 2025.
- Other analysts also point to North Korea. According to their data, the stolen funds were transferred to the same cryptocurrency address as in previous robberies.
- Following the news of the hack, Bitcoin dropped from 80-82 thousand dollars to 76 thousand dollars overnight. The panic also affected other cryptocurrencies.