Binance Hack: Around $2.8 Billion Drained From a Hot Wallet

Binance Hack: What Happened on Thursday EveningOn Thursday evening, 29 October 2026, an unknown attacker emptied one of Binance's largest hot wallets in a single transaction at 20:24 UTC. The wallet “Binance 14” sent 167,464 ETH and 63 different tokens to a freshly created address, including 1.615 billion USDT. Together with two further outflows, the attacker's addresses now hold around $2.8 billion according to Etherscan data. That would be the largest theft in the history of cryptocurrencies, almost twice as much as in the Bybit hack of February 2025.At 21:24 UTC, Binance said it was urgently investigating reports of a…