North Korea Denies Binance Hack While FBI and Secret Service Say Otherwise

North Korea denies the Binance hack. On Tuesday, Kim Yo Jong, the sister of Kim Jong Un, called the FBI’s attribution “a trite provocation” through state news agency KCNA. The FBI disagrees. It formally named North Korea’s TraderTraitor unit on October 31, and the US Secret Service confirmed it has been tracing and freezing the stolen funds since the first minutes of the attack. This post covers what each side said, why the evidence points one way, and the one viral claim about North Korea’s GDP that doesn’t survive a fact check.