News of the suspected breach of the world’s largest crypto exchange sent the price of digital tokens tumbling.
New York | A suspected hack of Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, prompted it to freeze more than $US2.5 billion ($3.5 billion) in assets and sent the price of digital tokens tumbling.
Binance said it hasn’t confirmed any impact to customer funds, but The Wall Street Journal reported cybersecurity experts as saying some $US5.5 billion may have been stolen.
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The announcement comes barely more than a week after hackers stole $6.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency from Binance users.
Techniques included laptop infections, compromised internal tooling, and fake job interviews.
Binance says hackers used a fake job interview, a tampered developer tool and an internal AI tool before stealing $6.3B from the exchange.
Kim Yo Jong refuses dialogue with US after denying responsibility for theft of more than $6bn in crypto assets.
Social engineering strikes again.
North Korean hackers pulled off the biggest cyber heist ever by duping a Binance engineer into thinking he was being recruited for a job, the crypto exchange says.
