3 days ago · North Korea
Crypto giant Binance hit by $6.3bn hack suspected to be largest in history

What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a general story. BBC News Asia and Cointelegraph are the outlets attached to this story. The reports are tied to North Korea. The first report grouped here was at 29 Oct 2026, 21:24 UTC. 16 material updates are listed in the timeline. The headline in use is “Crypto giant Binance hit by $6.3bn hack suspected to be largest in history”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Two analytics firms have attributed the incident to a North Korean hacking unit called TraderTraitor.
Story timeline
Reports grouped into this story, earliest first. Exact repeats from the same outlet are collapsed.
- First reported by Cointelegraph
Live updates: Binance says $3B in crypto frozen in connection to hack
- Picked up by Cointelegraph
- New development reported by Cointelegraph
- New development reported by Cointelegraph
Live updates: Binance eyes withdrawal restart within 48 hours after $6.3B hack
- New development reported by Cointelegraph
Live updates: Binance $6.3B hack linked to North Korea’s TraderTraitor
- New development reported by Cointelegraph
Live updates: Binance says $6.3B hack possibly involved a compromised engineer’s laptop
- New development reported by Cointelegraph
- Picked up by Cointelegraph
Binance hit by $6.3B hack, the largest in cryptocurrency history
- New development reported by Cointelegraph
Binance hit by $5.8B hack as Tether and Circle freeze billions
- New development reported by Cointelegraph
- New development reported by Cointelegraph
Live updates: Binance estimates $6.3B of crypto stolen in major hack
- Picked up by Cointelegraph
Live updates: Binance says $6.3B hack involved compromised engineer’s laptop
- New development reported by BBC Business
Crypto giant Binance freezes $2.5bn of assets over suspected hack
- Picked up by BBC Business
- Picked up by BBC Business
- Picked up by BBC News Asia
Crypto giant Binance hit by $6.3bn hack suspected to be largest in history
Same story, different outlets
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