ReportedamountStatement 977
Total: roughly $2.5 to $2.8 billion in one transaction, depending on whose prices you use.
Halborn said the first transaction from Binance 14 totalled roughly $2.5 to $2.8 billion, depending on whose prices are used.
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ReportedwithdrawalsStatement 1002
Halborn said Binance's own pipeline pushed 200 million USDT into a compromised wallet eighty minutes after the drain.
Binance’s own pipeline pushed 200 million USDT into a compromised wallet eighty minutes after the drain.
ReportedamountStatement 1001
Halborn said Binance lost about four percent of what it held, which it said sounds like a conservative hot allocation until four percent is six billion.
Binance lost about four percent of what it held, which sounds like a conservative hot allocation until four percent is six billion.
Reportedroot causeStatement 994
Halborn said that in both the Bybit and Binance incidents the legitimate signing system produced a valid signature for the attacker's transaction, and that in neither was a key broken, extracted or, as far as anyone can show, copied.
In both, the legitimate signing system produced a valid signature for the attacker's transaction, and in neither was a key broken, extracted or, as far as anyone can show, copied.
ReportedamountStatement 973
Halborn said that on October 29, 2026, between 20:05 and 23:56 UTC, an attacker moved about 6.3 billion dollars out of Binance's hot wallets on ten blockchains, and that nobody had yet shown that a private key was stolen.
On October 29, 2026, between 20:05 and 23:56 UTC, an attacker moved about 6.3 billion dollars out of Binance's hot wallets on ten blockchains, and nobody has yet shown that a private key was stolen.
ReportedattributionStatement 779
Halborn said Sygnia traced the Bybit loss to a compromised developer workstation, stolen cloud session tokens and a tampered signing interface, called it the same playbook with a different entry, and added that precedent is not evidence.
In Bybit, Sygnia traced the loss to a compromised developer workstation at the wallet provider, stolen cloud session tokens and a tampered signing interface. Same playbook, different entry. Precedent is not evidence, but it is a very good search warrant.