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An independent record of the October 2026 Binance hack
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At 20:41:23 the operator used the still-delegated Binance 14, which owns the Circle smart account Binance Hot Wallet 34 , to move 780M USDC from that account to the collection address, followed by another 43M USDC.
Unconfirmed, but possibly massive binance hack. Entire Binance wallet drained into new EOA. Contract call was funded by Tornado Cash
Total: roughly $2.5 to $2.8 billion in one transaction, depending on whose prices you use.
At 20:24:23 (3 minutes 24 seconds after the delegation), in block 26,300,770, the operator called Binance 14.
At 20:24:23, three minutes and 24 seconds later, the operator called sweep on Binance 14 (transaction ), sending 167,464 ETH, 1.615B USDT, and about 60 other tokens to a collection address with no prior history, 0x5227f603C1eE34CE3C06eFe6477003BDfCCB2f8c . Binance 14 was left with 1 ETH. At prices at the time, the basket was worth about $2.5B.
Ethereum sits in the middle of this sequence: at 20:24, one transaction moved about $2.53B out of a single wallet.
| Tron | 612.7 million USDT and 46.4 million TRX, about 628 million dollars | Plain signed transfers from a hot wallet | 20:22 |
| Ethereum | About 3.79 billion dollars: 200,630 ETH and 185 tokens, including 1.875 billion USDT, 823 million USDC and 88.5 million RLUSD | EIP-7702 delegation on Binance 14; nine plain signed transfers from Binance 16 | 20:20 to 23:56 |
Around 4:20 p.m. ET on October 29, 2026, funds began leaving Binance hot wallets across multiple blockchains. Unauthorized transfers totaled approximately $6.4 billion, the largest theft in crypto history.
At 20:20 UTC, a Binance Bitcoin hot wallet sent 18,270 BTC to an attacker address, which began splitting the funds into round 1,000 BTC and 100 BTC pieces inside the same block.
At 20:20 a Bitcoin hot wallet sent out 18,270 BTC, and a Tron wallet sent more than 600 million USDT right after that.
| Solana | 970,500 SOL, about 96 million dollars | Plain signed transfers | From 20:10 |
| XRP Ledger | 233.46 million XRP, about 296 million dollars | Five wallets each emptied to the reserve minimum, to one address | 20:05 to 20:09 |
At around 2026-10-29 20:05 (UTC), our hot wallets were compromised, resulting in a loss of approximately $6.3B USD worth of token assets.
Between 20:05 and 20:09 UTC, five Binance wallets sent 233.46 million XRP to a single attacker address, leaving each wallet with only its minimum balance.
The first transfers came at 20:05 UTC on the XRP Ledger, where five Binance wallets sent 233 million XRP to a single address.
The BTC was stolen from Binance hot wallets during a breach that affected nine blockchains in under four hours on Thursday.
On the evening of 29 October 2026, an attacker emptied Binance hot wallets on 10 blockchains
Blockchain analytics firm Arkham put the haul at $6.01 billion, taken from Binance hot wallets on nine blockchains between 4:10 p.m. and 7:05 p.m. ET on Thursday, it said in a tweet
Onchain data flagged by analyst Spreek shows about $3.55 billion in incoming transfers to the unlabeled wallet, with nearly $900 million subsequently moved across other wallets.
According to Glassnode, Thursday’s Binance breach was the largest cryptocurrency hack on record, with around $6.3 billion affected, exceeding the combined losses from the next nine largest hacks. The previous record was the $1.5 billion Bybit exploit in February 2025.
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.
Attacks on signing infrastructure, where an attacker makes an organization’s own keys sign for them, remain the largest source of losses onchain, and at Binance’s estimate of $6.3B this is the largest theft on record, more than four times the roughly $1.5B taken from Bybit in February 2025.
Elliptic's analysis shows that $6.43 billion in cryptoassets was stolen from Binance on October 29, 2026, more than four times the $1.46 billion stolen from Bybit in 2025.
The world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange reported Thursday that approximately $6.3 billion was impacted in an apparent hack.