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  JUST IN: 🇰🇵 North Korea responsible for $6 billion Binance hack, CNN reports.

  @WatcherGuruX9d ago28k▲view on X ↗
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  (WSJ) - Hackers appeared to have plundered at least $1.7 billion Thursday from Binance in what would be the largest-ever cryptocurrency heist. @wsj.com

  carlquintanilla.bsky.socialBluesky9d ago1.8k▲view on Bluesky ↗
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  Binance said that its $6.3 billion crypto breach "may involve a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop." If a single employee's laptop was able to access Binance's systems capable of controlling billions of dollars worth of crypto, that's the *company's* fault — not the employee's. https:// this.weekinsecurity.com/that-b…

  zackwhittaker@mastodon.socialMastodon8d ago357▲view on Mastodon ↗
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  The value of it to me is that as money has got more digital, I feel that there is an incredible amount of tracking that previously did not exist in a primarily cash based society. It really isn't my bank or the government's business what I'm buying, or that I went to a casino, or that I went into an adult shop, or <insert sensitive purchase for…

  reorder9695Hacker News8d agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  No, because the US felt like their alternative economic system was a danger to the global capitalism, much like Cuba. So they destroyed the entire country in what can only be described as a genocidal war and started imposing sanctions all the in the 50s. Just to protect the fascist South from the more developed North at the time. Today, even…

  ApollyonDSr/technology9d agoview on r/technology ↗
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  JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Binance says it is working with the FBI and US Secret Service following $6.3 billion crypto hack.

  @WatcherGuruX9d ago6.6k▲view on X ↗
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  “.. Binance has also forged a business relationship with the Trump family crypto business, World Liberty Financial, a major source of the president’s wealth.” @nytimes.com

  carlquintanilla.bsky.socialBluesky9d ago1.1k▲view on Bluesky ↗
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  Updated: Binance estimates its losses at ~$3B+, making this the largest exploit in crypto history — twice the size of 2025’s Bybit hack, now in second place. Binance blames a compromised devops laptop. North Korea, also behind Bybit, is the suspected culprit. https://www. citationneeded.news/binance-th eft/ # binance # crypto # cryptocurrency

  molly0xfff@hachyderm.ioMastodon9d ago328▲view on Mastodon ↗
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  The has been a clear increased in payment processors ( be it Visa/Mastercard/Paypal/... ) that blocking payment access to websits.These may be perfectly legal (example xxx sites), gray at worst (like anime websites). Some anime site that had (for example) paypal for over 15+ years. Plop ... gone.Crypto has become become the alternative payment…

  benjiro29Hacker News8d agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  Because the US failed to break them despite leveling the entire country and murdering a quarter of their population in the process, so the US settled in for a medieval ass siege that's lasted over 70 years now. The unilaterally imposed "why won't you surrender to us and let us loot your country and enslave your people!?!??" sanctions from the US…

  SirPseudonymousr/technology9d agoview on r/technology ↗
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  The Binance hacker might have just pulled off one of the smartest moves I’ve seen in crypto. First, Tether froze $1.5 billion in USDT. Then Circle froze another $800 million in USDC. At that point, it looked like the hacker’s money was trapped. But apparently, he had already

  @czesmaillX9d ago4.9k▲view on X ↗
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  “.. That’s gone,” Lee said in a Bloomberg Television interview on Friday. “The Bitcoin that’s lost, that’s all gone out into the hackers’ hands.” @bloomberg.com #Binance

  carlquintanilla.bsky.socialBluesky9d ago633▲view on Bluesky ↗
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  I wrote up what we know about the Binance hack so far. By my best estimate, Binance is out $1.5–$3 billion after stablecoin issuers froze what they could. Changpeng Zhao is promising Binance will cover it, but he’s legally barred from running the company. https://www. citationneeded.news/binance-th eft/ # binance # crypto # cryptocurrency

  molly0xfff@hachyderm.ioMastodon9d ago273▲view on Mastodon ↗
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  I thought that the whole point of crypto was money laundering and tax evasion. Does anyone think otherwise?I mean, that's what the big mean government does, they monitor financial transactions and they collect taxes. But when we talk about financial privacy from the prying eyes of the government as a goal, and let's suppose people actually use…

  nextaccounticHacker News8d agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  This is why you don't leave your crypto in someone else's wallet. I still remember back in the day when the whole point of crypto was that you control your own private keys. Nowadays people seem happy to just (collectively) leave billions in some random exchange account. This completely defeats the point, and is obviously worse than just putting…

  sunaurusr/stocks9d agoview on r/stocks ↗
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  Binance hack was the greatest robbery of all time

  @PsyopAnimeX9d ago3.2k▲view on X ↗
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  Pausing withdrawals is usually a sign of a liquidity issue or precedes other bad news.

  jacobsilverman.comBluesky9d ago70▲view on Bluesky ↗
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  North Korea trying to steal $6.3 billion from # Binance because 1(!!) laptop was compromised LOL Can we please stop the crypto bullshit that only enriches the wrong people while burning the planet we live on :angry_laugh: https://www. cnbc.com/2026/10/30/binance-ha ck-stolen-crypto-recovery.html

  stux@mstdn.socialMastodon8d ago102▲view on Mastodon ↗
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  No surprises there - of course they linked it to NK... These parasitic intelligence firms are draining taxpayer money because law enforcement agencies lack blockchain expertise and constantly outsource their investigations. We’ve already seen cases where firms like Chainalysis and TRM provided flawed data that led to innocent people being…

  78401-236124950Hacker News8d agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  Damn are we really so far gone that people are going to bat for freaking *North Korea* of all places? China I can understand because of their focus on academics; Russia I can also (kinda, maybe, not really) understand due to the minorities and non-moscow citizens that are getting the boot to fund Putin's war, but *North Korea????*

  Sweetcreemsr/technology9d agoview on r/technology ↗
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  North Korean state hackers appear to have been behind the Binance attack. The entire event started through a single DevOps engineer's compromised laptop. With the confirmed impact now at $6.3 billion, it is by far the largest crypto heist in history.

  @AndrewCurran_X9d ago1.3k▲view on X ↗
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  Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, appears to have been hacked.

  newsguy.bsky.socialBluesky9d ago40▲view on Bluesky ↗
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  Between $1.5 billion and $3 billion from the hot wallets https://www. citationneeded.news/binance-th eft/

  zoocoupMastodon9d ago54▲view on Mastodon ↗
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  For you maybe, and those who have only lived, worked, and made businesses in one country. I have had several occasions where crypto would have made life a lot easier. I closed a bank account in Canada and they said the funds could not be sent by wire when it's being closed, only a paper bank draft, and assured me that my bank in Europe would…

  summerisendingHacker News9d agoview on Hacker News ↗