Binance hit by $6.3B heist via compromised DevOps laptop; DeepSeek found in separate firewall breach
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-10-30
The author debunks viral fear-mongering that "everyone is getting hacked":
- Binance hot wallets were drained starting 4:24 PM ET, losing $6.3B — one of the largest heists in history. $3B has been frozen on-chain, and Binance says it will cover all losses. The reported entry point was a compromised DevOps laptop, not a private key leak.
- Polymarket separately lost $2.6M via a compromised third-party script.
- The viral list of other hacked exchanges is fake: Bybit and KuCoin say they're unaffected; the red heat maps are price maps, not attack maps.
- Unrelated: researchers found DeepSeek wired into the tooling of a different breach that rooted 25 Palo Alto firewalls.
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