Binance says $6.3 billion stolen in record cryptocurrency heist
Binance said hackers stole about $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency from wallets used by the world’s largest crypto exchange, surpassing the $1.5 billion theft from Bybit in February 2025 as the biggest crypto heist on record.
Most of the assets were removed across 10 blockchain networks in about 20 minutes late Thursday, according to blockchain analytics firms. Binance suspended deposits and withdrawals while investigating. The exchange initially said a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop had allowed unauthorized withdrawal requests, but later said it had found additional points of breach. It said there was no evidence that wallet private keys had leaked.
Stablecoin issuers and other industry partners froze roughly $3 billion of the stolen assets. Estimates varied as tracing continued, with TRM Labs saying the attackers still controlled about $2.4 billion in bitcoin and ether. Binance …