$6.3B drained via one engineer's hacked laptop at Binance, FBI points to North Korea
LexSokolin · x · 2026-11-02
Citing Binance's latest disclosure, Lex Sokolin notes roughly $6.3B flowed out through what appears to be a single engineer's hacked laptop. The FBI attributes the attack to North Korea. As far as known, no encryption was broken — this was an endpoint/social-engineering compromise, a topic Sokolin takes personally after nearly falling for a phishing attempt earlier this year.
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