--- title: Binance hit by $6.3-billion hack, the biggest crypto... description: Hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance, the largest crypto hack on record. TRM Labs and Chainalysis attribute the attack to North Korea, noting it hit Binance... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/binance-hit-by-6-3-billion-hack-the-biggest-crypto-heist-ever-eduz2kof8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Binance hit by $6.3-billion hack, the biggest crypto heist ever | daily.dev og:description: Hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance, the largest crypto hack on record. TRM Labs and Chainalysis attribute the attack to North Korea, noting it hit Binance... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/binance-hit-by-6-3-billion-hack-the-biggest-crypto-heist-ever-eduz2kof8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EduZ2kof8.png og:image:alt: Binance hit by $6.3-billion hack, the biggest crypto heist ever og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Binance hit by $6.3-billion hack, the biggest crypto heist ever **[TechCentral](https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance, the largest crypto hack on record. TRM Labs and Chainalysis attribute the attack to North Korea, noting it hit Binance wallets across 10 blockchains and moved most of the funds in about 20 minutes. Binance says about $3 billion has been frozen so far and expects withdrawals to resume within 48 hours. An initial probe points to a hacked engineer's laptop as the entry point. Tether froze $1.57 billion and Circle over $800 million in related assets. Bitcoin fell over 3% to a six-week low of $76,368 on the news. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much money was stolen in the Binance hack and who is responsible? Hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange, making it the biggest crypto heist on record. Blockchain analysis firms TRM Labs and Chainalysis attributed the attack to North Korea with high confidence, citing similarities to the 2025 Bybit hack that the FBI linked to Pyongyang. The attackers hit Binance wallets across 10 blockchains and moved most funds within about 20 minutes. _Security engineers tracking exchange breaches follow incident analyses like this on daily.dev._ ### How did the attacker gain access to Binance's systems in the 2026 hack? An initial investigation suggested the breach may have started with a hacked laptop belonging to a Binance engineer, which let an attacker access one of the exchange's systems and make unauthorized withdrawals. Binance said the incident stemmed from multiple factors and its security team was tracing the full attack path through the compromised computer, which may be the entry point. _Anyone hardening endpoint security against similar compromises can follow these incident details on daily.dev._ ### How much of the stolen Binance funds have been recovered or frozen? About $3 billion of the stolen funds had been located and frozen, out of the $6.3 billion total stolen, with the status of the remaining $3.3 billion unclear. Separately, stablecoin issuer Tether froze nearly $1.57 billion in assets linked to the incident, Circle froze more than $800 million, Ripple froze roughly $200 million, and World Liberty Financial froze $27 million in stablecoins plus about $2 million in its own tokens. _Those assessing counterparty and custody risk on exchanges can track recovery updates via daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#crypto](https://daily.dev/tags/crypto), [#blockchain](https://daily.dev/tags/blockchain) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/binance-hit-by-6-3-billion-hack-the-biggest-crypto-heist-ever-eduz2kof8) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Binance hit by $6.3-billion hack, the biggest crypto heist ever","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/binance-hit-by-6-3-billion-hack-the-biggest-crypto-heist-ever-eduz2kof8","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/binance-hit-by-6-3-billion-hack-the-biggest-crypto-heist-ever-eduz2kof8"},"datePublished":"2026-10-30T06:03:26.425Z","dateModified":"2026-10-30T06:30:51.678Z","description":"Hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance, the largest crypto hack on record. 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