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Compromised laptop could be to blame for record $6.3 billion cryptocurrency heist: Binance rushes to freeze stolen assets as experts blame North Korean group

PC Gamer • Fri, 30 Oct 2026

A DevOps engineer's compromised laptop may have been the first domino to fall in this record-breaking heist.

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A DevOps engineer's compromised laptop may have been the first domino to fall in this record-breaking heist.

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A DevOps engineer's compromised laptop may have been the first domino to fall in this record-breaking heist.

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Binance has disclosed that $6.3 billion worth of crypto funds have been stolen from the platform, in what's believed to be the biggest cryptocurrency hack on record. In a series of updates posted to X, the crypto exchange said that user funds are safe, and that around $3 billion of the impacted assets have been […]

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