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It could be the biggest heist of any kind in history, according to Elliptic, a consultancy specialising in crypto-related crime. The incident, which took place late on Thursday, is more than four times bigger than the previous largest crypto hack, the $1.5bn one targeting the Bybit exchange last year . Elliptic says there does not appear to be anything comparable in the pre-crypto era.
Cryptocurrency-related firms Coinbase, Strategy, and Robinhood fell in the wake of reports that hackers stole $6.3bn from Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange.
Binance has said the attack began with a compromised employee laptop and involved multiple breach points. It found no evidence of private-key leakage and said roughly $3bn of affected assets had been frozen.
Experts, such as TRM Labs, quickly attributed the extraordinary $6.3bn Binance cryptocurrency theft to TraderTraitor, an elite North Korean hacking unit that has also been known as the Lazarus Group.
Binance has pledged to meet customer losses through its SAFU reserve and company resources, announcing more than $6.34bn of company funds separate from roughly $3bn of frozen assets.
In the US, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman Michael Selig told reporters that “we have the ability to trace all this in the blockchain”. Speaking to CNBC, Selig said it was “very concerning” that there had been “several cyber incidents involving crypto” and the CFTC has regulations in place to prevent this sort of attack.