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Binance is investigating a potential multibillion-dollar security breach that is estimated to have impacted $6.3 billion in funds.

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BNB dropped 8% as crypto markets took a dive after news of a multibillion-dollar hack on crypto exchange Binance emerged.

Binance says a compromised engineer’s laptop may have enabled its $6.3 billion hack. The exchange has frozen about $3 billion and pledged to cover losses.

Standard Chartered says the $6.3 billion Binance hack could drive trading toward decentralized exchanges, strengthening its $100 Uniswap price forecast for 2030.

TRM Labs, Chainalysis and ZachXBT have linked Binance’s $6.3 billion hack to North Korea’s TraderTraitor group, citing connections to earlier crypto thefts.

Strategy eyes more Bitcoin buys as Michael Saylor says the company has up to $30 billion in digital credit capacity following its Q3 earnings report.

Cointelegraph’s timeline of Binance’s record $6.3 billion hack, including North Korea links, $3 billion in frozen assets and the security investigation.

Trezor urges CryptoBilis buyers to move their funds after a suspected hardware implant was reported in a Safe 5 wallet. No losses have been reported.

THORChain’s RUNE token rose more than 13% after Binance’s $6.3 billion hack, with ZachXBT reporting that stolen funds had passed through the protocol.

The Binance hacker holds 18,270 BTC, surpassing Coinbase’s corporate Bitcoin holdings, while its 508,621 ETH stash also exceeds major Ether treasuries.

Binance’s $6.3 billion hack has raised questions about Ethereum’s EIP-7702 as investigators uncover additional breaches and experts point to compromised signing systems.

Bitcoin forms a low-timeframe bullish divergence as it stems losses near $76,300 after the Binance hack and a US tech-stock sell-off.

Zcash Community Grants proposes redirecting $46M from its treasury and cutting future funding amid growing criticism over governance and accountability.

Binance says it reserved over $6.34 billion to cover hack losses, including $5 billion in matching tokens. About $3 billion in frozen assets is excluded.

Binance is working with the FBI towards asset recovery after the exchange suffered a record $6.3 billion hack.

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Crypto-linked shares underperformed major US stock indexes Friday as markets continued to assess the impact of Binance’s $6.3 billion security breach.