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An independent record of the October 2026 Binance hack
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Binance's initial investigation suggested an engineer's laptop was compromised, which allowed access to unauthorised withdrawals, but a later update said they had uncovered "additional points of breach".
Richard Teng, Binance's co-chief executive officer, said the hack was carried out by more than one person, and the hackers used sophisticated methods to hide their tracks, such as a "self-destruct mechanism".
On Friday, the company said it had frozen around $3bn of stolen assets after working with law enforcement, intelligence firms and partners.
Binance is preparing to resume phase one of withdrawals on 2026-11-01 between 06:00 and 09:00 (UTC).
Binance has now covered approximately 95% of the impacted amount, up from 90% in our prior update. The outstanding 5% are tokens outside the top ten listed above, and are less liquid in the market and take longer time to source at the required scale.
Our commitment remains unchanged: Binance will bear the financial impact of the stolen funds. These losses will not be passed on to users.
Once the investigation is complete, we will publish a post-incident report with further details on the incident.
Deposit services remain open and are not affected by the incident.
November 1, 06:00 UTC: Binance announced it has begun reopening withdrawals, starting with $BTC Bitcoin network.
“First batch network now opened in phase one of withdrawals is $BTC bitcoin network,” Binance said on X.
Richard Teng, Binance’s co-chief executive, said separately that the company was “committed to covering the remaining 10%” and that users would not bear the financial impact of the hack.
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