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North Korea's state-backed unit TraderTraitor compromised a single DevOps engineer's laptop, enabling unauthorized withdrawals totaling US$6.3 billion from Binance. This incident surpasses the previous record of US$1.5 billion from February 2025.
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North Korea Steals $6.3B in Crypto

TRM Labs attributes the Binance hack to North Korea-based TraderTraitor, which drained ~$6.36B from Binance wallets across 10 blockchains, mostly in ~20 minutes (Tom Westbrook/Reuters)

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