Binance Says $6.3B Hit in Security Breach, $3B Frozen After DevOps Laptop Compromise

Binance has released its clearest update yet on the security incident that shook crypto markets this week, putting the estimated total impact at around $6.3 billion. It says its preliminary probe yielded no sign of a compromise of its wallet private keys, and that recovery processes have already halted the flow of nearly half the impacted funds. Binance said that the attack might have begun by exploiting an attacker’s laptop belonging to one of the company’s DevOps engineers. That access, allegedly, enabled the attacker to access a service container to make unauthorized withdrawals.