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An independent record of the October 2026 Binance hack
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was an attack conducted by anonymous hackers on August 10, 2021. The attack transferred over $610 million in digital
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Some $473 million in funds were later taken from FTX in an "unauthorized transaction".
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In January 2018, Coincheck was hacked and approximately 500 million NEM tokens ($530 million) were stolen.
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On October 29, about $6.43 billion was stolen from Binance across 11 blockchains.
Swaps into THORChain use the same amounts again and again, with one value appearing 19 times.
The main Tron distribution wallet has sent funds every hour for 31 hours straight. The longest pause was 46 minutes, and there was no overnight break.
The following addresses are holding or have held assets from the theft, and are operated by or closely connected to North Korean TraderTraitor actors:
FBI, USSS, and IRS-CI are urging private sector entities including THORNode operators, RPC node operators, instant exchanges, DeFi services, blockchain analytics firms, and other virtual asset service providers to block transactions with or derived from addresses TraderTraitor actors are using to launder these stolen assets.
The FBI, together with partners at the USSS and IRS-CI, has observed TraderTraitor actors converting stolen assets primarily into Ethereum (ETH). It is expected these assets will then be further laundered by converting them using DeFi and instant swap services as they prepare them for further laundering stages.
“First batch network now opened in phase one of withdrawals is $BTC bitcoin network,” Binance said on X.
November 1, 06:00 UTC: Binance announced it has begun reopening withdrawals, starting with $BTC Bitcoin network.
Deposit services remain open and are not affected by the incident.
Once the investigation is complete, we will publish a post-incident report with further details on the incident.
Our commitment remains unchanged: Binance will bear the financial impact of the stolen funds. These losses will not be passed on to users.
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.
Binance is preparing to resume phase one of withdrawals on 2026-11-01 between 06:00 and 09:00 (UTC).
October 31, 22:41 UTC. About $196 million has been sent out of the main Tron distribution wallet to around 200 wallets,
Bitcoin traded near $77,400 at 4:00 pm on Saturday, about 4% below its price shortly before the attack began Thursday
they had robust intelligence pointing to North Korean state-backed hacking unit the Lazarus Group, also known as TraderTraitor
The US Secret Service said on Friday it is "working around the clock" with private sector partners "to identify, freeze, trace, and recover funds" stolen from Binance.
On Friday, the company said it had frozen around $3bn of stolen assets after working with law enforcement, intelligence firms and partners.
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".
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".
All holdings of the cryptocurrencies bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether are covered, along with seven other widely-traded crypto assets, the company said.