5 hours ago · North Korea
Crypto giant Binance hit by 'largest hack in history'
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a general story. BBC News World is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to North Korea. The first report grouped here was at 30 Oct 2026, 00:37 UTC. 6 material updates are listed in the timeline. The headline in use is “Crypto giant Binance hit by 'largest hack 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 BBC Business
Crypto giant Binance freezes $2.5bn of assets over suspected hack
- Picked up by BBC News Asia
- New development reported by BBC News Asia
- Picked up by BBC News Asia
- Picked up by BBC Business
- Picked up by BBC News World
Crypto giant Binance hit by hack suspected to be largest in history
Reported by 1 outlet
- BBC News