Binance’s preliminary report on the Oct. 29 security incident said about $6.34 billion in digital assets were affected and about $2.85 billion had been frozen or intercepted, according to BlockBeats.
Incident response
Binance said it would bear the stolen-fund losses and that 98% of affected tokens had been replenished by Oct. 31. The exchange also said it plans to hire an independent cybersecurity firm and coordinate asset tracing and freezes.
Attack path and caveats
The report described fake recruitment interviews, malware, endpoint compromise and on-chain authorization vulnerabilities in a multi-stage attack. The amounts remain subject to verification and market-price changes. The report’s attribution of the attack to North Korea was presented as sourced information and was not independently verified here.
Source: BlockBeats English source, published Nov. 3, 2026.