Cointelegraph reported that Binance said the current verified amount of assets frozen from the hack was $3 billion.
Binance said the current verified amount of assets frozen from the hack is now $3 billion.
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Binance said the current verified amount of assets frozen from the hack is now $3 billion.
Our current estimate on amount stolen is approx $5.912B at time of theft
a compromise of signing infrastructure. We don’t think a key was leaked,” he said.
Chainalysis said its current estimate of the amount stolen from Binance is $5.912 billion at the time of theft, four times the amount stolen from crypto exchange Bybit in 2025.
The delegation was cleared at 00:10:35 on October 30, three hours and fifty minutes after it was installed.
at 00:10:35 UTC on 30 October, Binance 14 signed a new authorization that reset its delegation, 3 hours 46 minutes after the sweep.
At 00:08 UTC, it used those powers to force two transfers out of the attacker's wallet on Arbitrum, moving 8,426 ETH and 74.6 million ARB, about USD 30 million, out of the attacker's reach.
30 Oct, 00:08 | The Arbitrum Security Council moves 8,426 ETH and 74.6M ARB out of the attacker's reach.
deposits as it conducts security checks, freezes funds and coordinates with law enforcement. It previously confirmed it had suspended withdrawals.
Binance said it has temporarily suspended deposits as it conducts security checks, freezes funds and coordinates with law enforcement.
As of Friday morning, Arkham's entity page for the attacker showed holdings of about 18,270 BTC, 488,364 ETH, 663.6 million TRX and 970,551 SOL, alongside frozen stablecoin stablecoin balances.
Early Friday, the wallets sent $38.82 million in Ethereum to a new address, while still holding $1.12 billion in ETH, Arkham said
Cointelegraph reported that cryptocurrency markets extended their decline early Friday following the Binance hack , with BNB down more than 8% over 24 hours and Bitcoin trading near $77,000. Decentralized finance tokens also declined. Aave’s AAVE fell 11.3% to $118.54, while Uniswap’s UNI dropped 10.4% to $6.48, according to CoinGecko.
Bitquery also traced 508,621 Ether (ETH) to the attackers as of the same Friday snapshot, exceeding the 495,362 ETH that BitcoinTreasuries.net attributes to The Ether Machine, which ranks third on its list of corporate Ether holders.
Bitcoin stemmed losses after dropping to $76,320 as markets processed details of a $6.3 billion hack on Binance.
Yesterday, hackers stole more than $6 billion from Binance in less than 4 hours, the biggest heist in history.
“This proves our exact point in proposing regulations for crypto markets.
The Clarity Act would have given crypto firms legal cover to freeze suspicious transactions the instant law enforcement calls.
Shares of publicly traded cryptocurrency companies fell sharply Friday, with Coinbase dropping more than 13% a day after reporting a decline in third-quarter revenue
the company’s SpaceX holdings alone, linked to a $500 million investment in Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, were worth more than $1 billion.
that approximately $3 billion in frozen assets and Binance’s $1.17 billion emergency fund could cover about 66% of the reported losses, leaving a potential $2.1 billion gap.
Still, CertiK told Cointelegraph on Friday that it needed more information to verify Binance’s claimed $5 billion in replacement cryptocurrencies.
Abu Dhabi's Financial Services Regulatory Authority, which issued Binance's main operating license, said it is "engaging closely with Binance and monitoring the incident."
The Secret Service said that its investigators "are working around the clock with our private-sector partners, including Circle, to identify, freeze, trace and recover funds stolen from Binance on Thursday."
The FBI said it is "aware of the incident and is engaged with relevant public and private partners to understand the scope of the activity, evaluate potential impacts, and coordinate appropriate investigative steps."