Answering your questions about who was behind the Binance hack, how they launder the money, and where it goes
Crypto firm Binance covers 90% of losses after $6.3bn hack
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says North Korea was responsible for the hack.
North Korea Responsible for $6 Billion+ Binance Attack | Federal Bureau of Investigation
The FBI is releasing information advising the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was responsible for the theft of more than $6 billion USD in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
North Korea Steals USD 6.36 Billion From Binance in the Largest Hack in History | TRM Labs
On October 29, 2026, an attacker moved about $6.36 billion out of Binance wallets across ten blockchains, the largest crypto theft on record, and TRM attributes it to North Korea’s TraderTraitor, with evidence pointing to a compromise of Binance’s hot wallet signing infrastructure. About $2.7 billion has been frozen, but the attacker still holds roughly $2.4 billion, and TRM is tracking the funds and alerting partners through the Beacon Network.
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Binance hack: ‘additional points of breach’ beyond a laptop
Binance says the Binance hack went beyond a compromised laptop. TRM Labs blames North Korea for the $6.36bn theft; about $3bn is frozen.
North Korea gets away with $3 billion from Binance
Stablecoin issuers froze about $2.4 billion of the roughly $6.3 billion stolen. The rest exceeds Binance’s insurance fund, and the man promising to make users whole isn’t supposed to be running the company.
North Korea gets away with $3 billion from Binance
Stablecoin issuers froze about $2.4 billion of the roughly $6.4 billion stolen. The rest exceeds Binance’s insurance fund, and the man promising to make users whole isn’t supposed to be running the company.
Hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance in record heist blamed on North Korea
Hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, in a theft that analysts blamed on North Korea and said could be the largest financial heist of all time.
The Incredible Rise of North Korea’s Hacking Army
The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped?
Binance's $6.3 Billion Theft, 19 Hours In: Four Totals, Three Frozen Figures, a Shifting Cause, and an Attribution That Still Rests on Analytics Firms
Written Friday 2026-10-30, about 15:00 UTC. The incident is roughly 19 hours old. Everything below is what published sources said at that point, and several...
Politically Connected Crypto Project Pursued Resort With Alleged Scam Syndicate Figures
AB is a little-known blockchain network that recently partnered with the Trump family’s crypto firm. But one of the projects it has promoted — a proposed crypto technology resort in Southeast Asia — involved people sanctioned by the U.S. last year for ties to the Prince Group, an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud...
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UK Government Designates Chinese Scam Infrastructure Xinbi
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Anatomy of a scam empire: Brains and businesses behind Chen Zhi’s network centred in Cambodia
The Business Times unravels the tangled web of sanctioned collaborators, accused associates and entities, using Handshakes data
‘Industrial-scale scams’ and a state allegedly ‘co-opted’: What the rise and fall of the Prince group means for Cambodia
Indictment and arrest of Prince Group founder Chen Zhi has sparked questions about scam industry’s alleged ties to political elite, and integrity of government crackdown
