The FBI officially announced that North Korea is behind the largest cryptocurrency theft in history - hackers stole more than $6 billion from the Binance exchange. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that the North Korean hacker group TraderTraitor was behind the hack of the world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, on October 29. Previously, American journalists published information about this. According to the FBI, the attackers stole cryptocurrencies worth more than $6 billion. The agency, along with the Secret Service and the IRS, is tracking the movement of the stolen funds. Hackers are transferring assets mainly to Ethereum, and then they will probably try to launder them using decentralized financial services. The FBI published the addresses of crypto wallets associated with the hackers and called on market participants to block transactions with them. Previously, hackers withdrew about $6.36 billion from Binance wallets, the bulk of the amount in about 20 minutes. This is the largest cryptocurrency theft in history. Binance said the attack was related, among other things, to the hacking of an employee's laptop and the use of malware that destroyed traces of the intrusion. The exchange temporarily suspended withdrawals. By October 31, the company, according to its data, had recovered 90% of the volume of stolen assets from its reserves and promised to cover the losses in full. The TraderTraitor group has already been linked to large-scale cryptocurrency thefts. Last February, they stole about $1.5 billion from the Bybit exchange - at that time, the FBI also officially blamed the DPRK. Channel

The FBI officially announced that North Korea is behind the largest cryptocurrency theft in history - hackers stole more than $6 billion from the Binance exchange. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that the North Korean hacker group TraderTraitor was behind the hack of the world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, on October 29. Previously, American journalists published information about this. According to the FBI, the attackers stole cryptocurrencies worth more than $6 billion. The agency, along with the Secret Service and the IRS, is tracking the movement of the stolen funds. Hackers are transferring assets mainly to Ethereum, and then they will probably try to launder them using decentralized financial services. The FBI published the addresses of crypto wallets associated with the hackers and called on market participants to block transactions with them. Previously, hackers withdrew about $6.36 billion from Binance wallets, the bulk of the amount in about 20 minutes. This is the largest cryptocurrency theft in history. Binance said the attack was related, among other things, to the hacking of an employee's laptop and the use of malware that destroyed traces of the intrusion. The exchange temporarily suspended withdrawals. By October 31, the company, according to its data, had recovered 90% of the volume of stolen assets from its reserves and promised to cover the losses in full. The TraderTraitor group has already been linked to large-scale cryptocurrency thefts. Last February, they stole about $1.5 billion from the Bybit exchange - at that time, the FBI also officially blamed the DPRK. Channel