The damage from the hacker attack on the Binance crypto exchange was estimated at 6.3 billion dollars. The fact of the attack on October 30 was confirmed by the company's founder, Changfeng Zhao. Currently, the exchange has temporarily suspended all operations for depositing and withdrawing funds. Along with partners, about $3 billion of the affected assets have already been frozen. The company stated that the incident may be related to the hacking of a development engineer's laptop. According to preliminary data, the attacker gained access to the service container, which allowed him to make unauthorized transactions to withdraw money. The representatives of the platform also emphasized that there were no signs of leakage of private keys of cryptocurrency wallets. This spring, the Greenx crypto exchange was hacked. So more than a billion rubles were stolen from Russians' wallets. An image generated by a neural network.

The damage from the hacker attack on the Binance crypto exchange was estimated at 6.3 billion dollars. The fact of the attack on October 30 was confirmed by the company's founder, Changfeng Zhao. Currently, the exchange has temporarily suspended all operations for depositing and withdrawing funds. Along with partners, about $3 billion of the affected assets have already been frozen. The company stated that the incident may be related to the hacking of a development engineer's laptop. According to preliminary data, the attacker gained access to the service container, which allowed him to make unauthorized transactions to withdraw money. The representatives of the platform also emphasized that there were no signs of leakage of private keys of cryptocurrency wallets. This spring, the Greenx crypto exchange was hacked. So more than a billion rubles were stolen from Russians' wallets. An image generated by a neural network.