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Binance flags 'potential security issue,' says approximately $6.3 billion impacted

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Binance flags 'potential security issue,' says approximately $6.3 billion impacted

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, said Thursday it's investigating reports of a potential security issue as its founder said the incident “does look like a hack on Binance.”

The company said late Thursday the estimated total impact was more than $6 billion, which could be one of the most significant of such security incidents on record.

It wasn't immediately clear the extent of the damage hackers might have been able to cause, and Binance had not explicitly confirmed that funds had been pilfered. The company said its teams are “working around the clock” to resolve the issue.

“Rest assured that user funds are completely safe,” a Binance spokesperson said in a statement.

“Our security teams are reviewing all relevant information with urgency, and we will provide updates through official Binance channels as soon as we have verified information,” the statement continued.

The company wrote on its X account that the estimated total impact sat at around USD 6.3 billion. It said it has worked with blockchain partners to freeze affected assets, with roughly $3 billion frozen on-chain so far.

“Binance's initial investigation suggests that the security incident may involve a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop, which allowed an attacker to gain access to a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions,” the company wrote.

“We have found no evidence of any wallet private key leak,” it added.

Binance said it will share more technical details once the investigation is complete and when the facts are “fully verified.”

“Our teams work closely with law enforcement, issuers, blockchain intelligence firms and industry partners to trace and freeze additional assets,” the company wrote in a separate post earlier Thursday.


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