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An independent record of the October 2026 Binance hack
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On October 31, the FBI attributed the theft to TraderTraitor, its name for a North Korean state-sponsored hacking group. This confirms Elliptic's earlier assessment.
Reviewer note: Event time is a date only. The 00:00 UTC time shown is a placeholder, the source gives no time of day. Elliptic reports the FBI attribution of 31 October. The FBI alert itself is captured separately.
Tether froze that wallet 37 minutes later, locking 1.18 billion USDT in place
Elliptic has verified $2.85 billion of frozen or seized funds, 44% of the theft
On October 29, 2026, $6.43 billion in cryptoassets were stolen from Binance, the world's largest cryptoasset exchange, according to Elliptic's analysis.
Elliptic's total excludes a further $169 million that left Binance after withdrawals were suspended.
The two sets of funds have now been combined in several wallets, and the amount has grown overnight. The link was first reported by ZachXBT.