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 TraderBugd group, which is linked to North Korean hackers Lazarus. The FBI previously accused this group of stealing $1.5 billion from the Babbitt 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 $80-82k to $76k overnight. The panic also affected other cryptocurrencies.

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 TraderBugd group, which is linked to North Korean hackers Lazarus. The FBI previously accused this group of stealing $1.5 billion from the Babbitt 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 $80-82k to $76k overnight. The panic also affected other cryptocurrencies.