
Binance points to engineer’s hacked laptop in $6.3B breach
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.

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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.

Bitcoin price fell below $79,000 as reports of a suspected Binance hack, with outflows of up to $5.8 billion, prompted Tether and Circle to freeze roughly $1.8 to $2.4 billion in stablecoins.

Etherscan records show wallets tied to the suspected Binance hack swapping freezable stablecoins for Ethereum on decentralized exchanges.

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Binance is investigating reports of a potential security issue after large transfers of ETH and tokens moved from its hot wallets to an exploiter-labeled address.

Binance says withdrawals will resume once its security issue is resolved. What is known about wallet outflows, customer funds and stablecoin freezes.