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Key Takeaways
- Compromised engineer laptop enabled unauthorized withdrawals.
- Binance estimates impact at about $6.3 billion.
- Around $3 billion frozen with blockchain partners.
- TRM, Chainalysis tie attack to North Korea.
CNN reported early Friday that hackers had stolen more than $6 billion from Binance, with several investigators pointing to North Korea and Chainalysis saying it had high confidence in that attribution.
The outflows were first spotted on Thursday evening, when about $2.8 billion was reported leaving Binance wallets, and Binance founder Changpeng Zhao later said it looked like a hack. Since then, the picture has changed substantially.
What Binance has now confirmed
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