Binance says compromised DevOps laptop was initial breach vector; ~$6.3B impact, losses covered

Binance's initial investigation found a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop was the likely breach vector behind its ~$6.3B incident, with North Korean hackers suspected, but a subsequent probe uncovered additional breach points. Binance says no private key leaked, ~$3B frozen on-chain, and will cover all user losses, holding ~$5B of affected tokens and buying the remaining ~$1.3B via market and OTC.

Detected & updated continuously · Source: Nebula