Hackers robbed Binance of six billion dollars by arranging a fake interview with an employee of the crypto exchange, according to the company's initial report, which describes how hackers were able to gain access to the wallet and carry out perhaps the biggest heist in history. According to Binance, in June 2026, one of the crypto exchange's employees downloaded a fake installation file for Homebrew, a popular package manager for macOS. The security service knew about this and changed the credentials, but the hackers still managed to find out who was responsible for developing the wallets. In the fall, another Binance employee, looking for a new job from his work computer, faked an interview and uploaded a test task with malicious code. This is how the hackers managed to gain access to his computer. On October 20, they used a compromised computer and the company's internal AI tool. Thus, they were able to gain access to deploy new versions of Binance's internal services. Already on the day of the theft, October 29, the hackers, who took advantage of the stolen data, opened the script and carried out an attack. They managed to withdraw about $6.34 billion worth of cryptocurrency from the exchange. "Binance said it rebuilt the affected wallet system and internal AI tools, replaced devices, revoked certificates and associated tokens, audited all employee devices and expanded its use of artificial intelligence technology to detect behavioral anomalies. The company initiates independent audits, increases investments in security adapted to artificial intelligence and preventive measures, and works with an industry research foundation, and works with an industry research foundation. Earlier, the FBI stated that the North Korean hacker group TraderBug was responsible for stealing more than $6 billion from the Binance cryptocurrency exchange.

Hackers robbed Binance of six billion dollars by arranging a fake interview with an employee of the crypto exchange, according to the company's initial report, which describes how hackers were able to gain access to the wallet and carry out perhaps the biggest heist in history. According to Binance, in June 2026, one of the crypto exchange's employees downloaded a fake installation file for Homebrew, a popular package manager for macOS. The security service knew about this and changed the credentials, but the hackers still managed to find out who was responsible for developing the wallets. In the fall, another Binance employee, looking for a new job from his work computer, faked an interview and uploaded a test task with malicious code. This is how the hackers managed to gain access to his computer. On October 20, they used a compromised computer and the company's internal AI tool. Thus, they were able to gain access to deploy new versions of Binance's internal services. Already on the day of the theft, October 29, the hackers, who took advantage of the stolen data, opened the script and carried out an attack. They managed to withdraw about $6.34 billion worth of cryptocurrency from the exchange. "Binance said it rebuilt the affected wallet system and internal AI tools, replaced devices, revoked certificates and associated tokens, audited all employee devices and expanded its use of artificial intelligence technology to detect behavioral anomalies. The company initiates independent audits, increases investments in security adapted to artificial intelligence and preventive measures, and works with an industry research foundation, and works with an industry research foundation. Earlier, the FBI stated that the North Korean hacker group TraderBug was responsible for stealing more than $6 billion from the Binance cryptocurrency exchange.