Binance revealed details of its investigation into hackers who breached the system and stole digital assets worth about 200 billion baht, noting that the attackers used fake job interviews as part of their assault.
On 3 Nov 2026, Binance, the world’s largest digital currency trading platform, disclosed details of its investigation into hackers who breached their system and stole cryptocurrency valued at over $6.34 billion (about 200 billion baht), finding that the attackers used fake job interviews and malware in their assault.
The incident, which occurred on 29 Oct, is the largest attack in the history of the crypto company, causing major declines in key cryptocurrency prices in the market. However, Binance has used its own funds to reimburse 98% of the lost assets to users, with the remaining 2% being low-liquidity tokens.
At the same time, Binance revealed it has frozen approximately $2.85 billion of the stolen funds.
According to Binance’s disclosure, the attackers planned the assault since June, initially penetrating the system by tricking the company’s software engineers into downloading a compromised version of the Homebrew tool. Although the cybersecurity team detected and removed the malware, the hackers had already extracted some data from the engineers and the team.
Later in September, the hackers contacted another engineer through a job platform, inviting them to an interview at a fabricated company. They built trust by exchanging photos and videos before tricking the engineer into completing a test embedded with sophisticated malware that successfully infiltrated Binance’s internal systems.
Then on 20 Oct, the hackers used the compromised access combined with internal AI tools to take control of software used by two more engineers. On the day of the attack, 29 Oct, the hackers executed malicious code to launch the assault, extracting over $6.34 billion within just four hours.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stated that this attack was carried out by a hacker group linked to North Korea, which denied the accusations. Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, responded by calling the claims "absurd allegations."
Follow international news:https://www.thairath.co.th/news/foreign
Source:cna