The Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed North Korea was behind the ‘biggest hack in history’ after $6.3billion was stolen from the cryptocurrency giant Binance, sending executives into an overnight panic.
An investigation led by the FBI, the United States Secret Service and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation has uncovered malicious North Korean cyber activity by ‘TraderTraitor,’ an elite hacking group.
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by daily trading volumes, said on Thursday that investigations had ‘uncovered additional points of breach,’ contrary to initial findings that suggested the hack involved a single compromised laptop.
The company later said the estimated total impact was
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