Binance Lost $6.3 Billion Without Losing a Key

2026-10-30 • Threat Mon •

https://threatmon.io/binance-lost-6-3-billion-without-losing-a-key

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Attackers transferred approximately $6.3 billion from 17 Binance hot wallets after compromising a DevOps laptop and reaching infrastructure capable of submitting transactions to Binance's signer. On Ethereum, 50 pre-obtained EIP-7702 authorizations enabled a malicious delegation that supported repeated withdrawals for nearly four hours without additional signatures. ThreatMon assesses attribution to DPRK-linked TraderTraitor as plausible with moderate-to-high confidence, based on multiple analytics firms, recurring signing-path tradecraft, and laundering overlap with Bitget proceeds. No government attribution had been issued, and Binance reported no evidence of private-key, customer-data, or KYC exposure.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
WALLET AffzFDKZbyMiU11zmVBoAqD25ugpr7x… 2026-10-30 2026-10-31
WALLET 0x8532FA14ACAf483729C449b8458ae… 2026-10-30 2026-10-31
WALLET 9SkjwUs5pRRQQo5a6g4m5cciy1xLdDe… 2026-10-30 2026-10-30
WALLET rK21t6nGLy4MNDqhvy3pGwcLFy25qgf… 2026-10-30 2026-10-30
WALLET TG5iBMQPrDzJJAUM8GMVBf1hRaJ1wvz… 2026-10-30 2026-10-30
WALLET TPBkSjkCMn2ckrMuAP8n2J1jdjbw76b… 2026-10-30 2026-10-30
WALLET 0x5227f603C1eE34CE3C06eFe647700… 2026-10-30 2026-10-30
WALLET 0x63e842B054Bd624a465454D533C33… 2026-10-30 2026-10-30
WALLET 0x7C8601d4645b93cea45F71e118A72… 2026-10-30 2026-10-30

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