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The Binance hack is not over: another 200.4M USDT plus 370 ETH just moved from the Binance 14 wallet to an address tagged Binance Hot Wallet Exploiter 2, and Tether reportedly froze the USDT fast — Etherscan
The Binance hot wallets were reportedly drained through EIP-7702 delegations, which only the wallet's own key can sign, pointing to a private key compromise rather than a contract bug — Defimon Alerts
CZ says the Binance hack loss "might be a bit higher" than the roughly $1B left unfrozen after the stablecoin freezes, but says it will be covered — CZ on X
Binance now links its withdrawal halt to the hack rather than a technical error: withdrawals will resume only once "the security issue is fully resolved", while user funds "remain safe" — Binance on X
Market makers are counting Binance hack exposure: Wintermute's sits under 20% of net equity and GSR's under 5%, with both expecting no disruption to operations — Cointelegraph
The Binance hacker is reportedly converting loot into ETH, selling 96.94 WBTC ($7.6M) for 3,210 ETH while still holding $180M+ in altcoins, led by ENA ($39.5M), PEPE ($34.4M) and LINK ($28M) — ahboyashreads
The Binance hacker has piled about 253,000 ETH ($570M) into two wallets after swapping freezable stablecoins through Uniswap and Aave, while Kamino paused borrowing on its SOL/BTC market — Decrypt
Paxos froze 1,906.67 PAXG gold tokens that moved from Binance to the suspected attacker's address, joining Tether and Circle, and says PAXG, PYUSD and USDG reserves are intact — Paxos on X
Binance gave its first official figure for the hack: $2.54B in stolen assets is frozen so far, above the $1.8B cited earlier, and the total may still rise as tracing continues — Finbold
The Arbitrum Security Council executed an emergency transaction to freeze about $30.5M sitting in a Binance exploiter address on Arbitrum, adding to the stablecoin freezes already locking the hacker's loot — ZachXBT
Binance co-CEO Yi He says the exchange will cover all hacking losses, with deposits and withdrawals suspended while it freezes funds, works with law enforcement and prepares a full post-mortem — Yi He on X
The drained Binance wallets were listed in its own proof-of-reserves as backing customer balances, leaving the exchange's ether backing an estimated 6% short until it replaces the stolen funds — CoinDesk
Binance now puts the verified frozen amount from the hack at about $3B, up from the $2.54B it cited earlier, as tracing of the stolen funds continues — Cointelegraph
Binance says the roughly $6.3B hack began with a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop that let an attacker submit unauthorized withdrawals, with no private key leaked and ~$3B frozen — Binance
Binance postponed the spot listing of Predict (PREDICT), originally set for October 30 at 10:00 UTC, until further notice, as deposits and withdrawals stay halted after its hack — Binance
Unable to know the Binance 14 hot wallet's live nonce, the attacker packed 50 EIP-7702 authorizations into one transaction, and the single match delegated the wallet to a sweep contract — Blockaid
North Korea's Lazarus Group is likely behind the roughly $6.3B Binance hack, on-chain sleuths say, which would make it the regime's biggest crypto heist, topping its $1.5B Bybit attack — CoinDesk
Binance expects to begin resuming withdrawals within 48 hours after its roughly $6.3B hack, while deposits remain unaffected — Yi He on X
Stolen funds from the $6.3B Binance hack and the $388M Bitget hack landed at the same address via THORChain, tying both to the same DPRK-linked attacker TraderTraitor — ZachXBT on X
XRP Ledger developers are rolling out a set of fixes that tighten who can hold permissioned 'restricted' tokens on the network, with the XRP Ledger Foundation saying no users were affected — CoinDesk
Trezor says a Trezor Safe 5 bought from CryptoBilis, the Southeast Asian reseller behind the tampered Ledger devices, was reported with a similar hardware implant and urges buyers since March to move funds to a new seed — Trezor