Binance says hackers stole $6.3 billion using fake interviews and AI tools

Binance co-CEO Richard Teng said hackers infiltrated internal systems through forged developer tools, fake job interviews, and malicious coding exercises, and used internal AI tools to obtain wallet transaction authorization, stealing more than $6 billion in assets from Binance in the October 29 attack. The FBI has linked the attack to the North Korean TraderTraitor group. Binance said it has replenished 98% of the $6.34 billion in affected assets and is still purchasing the remaining less-liquid assets; the company pledged to bear all customer losses and to use its own reserves to make up the affected assets. Binance also worked with Tether, Circle, Ripple, and others to freeze about $3 billion and has temporarily restricted some withdrawals.

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