Live updates: Binance says $6.3B hack involved compromised engineer’s laptop

Follow live updates as Binance says $6.3 billion in assets has been stolen in a major hack. Around $3 billion in stolen funds have been frozen.

Oct. 30 at 02:25 am UTC

Binance said its initial investigation into the multi-billion crypto breach has pointed to a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop. 

The exchange said the laptop compromise may have allowed an attacker to access a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions. It said it had found no evidence of a wallet private-key leak, though its investigation remains ongoing.

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