Binance confirmed a ~$6.3B hot wallet hack on Oct 29, blaming a compromised DevOps engineer laptop used to reach a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawals, with no private key leak found so far (post).

Binance confirmed a ~$6.3B hot wallet hack on Oct 29, blaming a compromised DevOps engineer laptop used to reach a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawals, with no private key leak found so far (post).

Tracker tally was ~$5.6B across Ethereum, Bitcoin and Tron, 67 assets with 63 swept out of Binance 14 in one tx 0x53bd…e2f3. Ethereum main receiver 0x5227…2f8c still holds ~$2.14B on Ethereum, mostly frozen USDT plus $823M USDC, and 197,460 ETH sits at 0x8532…43D4 worth ~$442M.

Binance says ~$3B frozen onchain with partners (post), up from $2.54B verified late Oct 29. Trackers cited ~$1.56B USDT frozen by Tether plus ~$823M USDC by Circle, about 42% neutralized, with ~$730M USDT still unfrozen.

Not freezable: 18,270 BTC (~$1.45B) at bc1q0mtc2f5agpkvlq6hhahmfr3hlr55kyfjhl2mnm, ~197K ETH (~$451M), plus $234M TRX, $88.5M RLUSD, $75M WBETH, $50M XAUT. Tron watch addresses are TG5iBMQPrDzJJAUM8GMVBf1hRaJ1wvzsGi (612.7M USDT received) and TSUUVjysXV8YqHytSNjfkNXnnB49QDvZpx (216M USDT).

Deposits and withdrawals stay suspended while Binance checks systems, says it revoked the authorization and will cover all losses via SAFU and company funds. BNB was ~$717.84 on Binance spot, down ~4.3% in 24h.