Investigators linked a reported $6.3 billion Binance hack to North Korea’s Tradertraitor operation, but no U.S. government agency had publicly assigned responsibility as of Oct. 31. The alleged attackers reportedly gained access through an infected Binance engineer’s computer and moved assets across nearly a dozen blockchains in about 20 minutes.
Binance said customer assets were protected and pledged to absorb the losses. Token issuers and blockchain administrators reportedly immobilized $2.7 billion to $3 billion. The source’s broader estimates of North Korea-linked thefts do not show how much money reached the government or remains spendable: they include recovered or inaccessible assets and cases with disputed attribution.
