The largest theft in the history of the crypto market started with a job interview. On November 3, 2026, Binance published a first incident report on the hack of October 29. According to the report, the attackers did not reach the exchange's hot wallets with a stolen key but through months of groundwork: a tampered software package in June, a fake hiring process in September and an internal AI tool in October. Binance puts the damage at more than $6.3 billion.
For the exchange's customers, the report changes little about the current situation. Binance says around 98 percent of the affected holdings have been replaced with company funds, and it is reopening withdrawals step by step. The method matters more. The same scheme of fake job offers and poisoned test assignments has been aimed at developers, freelancers and retail investors for years, and a handful of habits are enough to fend it off.
Binance incident report: how the $6.3 billion hack began
Binance released the report on Tuesday through its own channel on X, alongside a press briefing with security chief Jimmy Su, which Read Entire Article
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