Forwarded messages claim Binance's hot wallet was hacked and drained through Tornado Cash, with about $2.5B across 60+ tokens moved on Ethereum.

Forwarded messages claim Binance's hot wallet was hacked and drained through Tornado Cash, with about $2.5B across 60+ tokens moved on Ethereum.

On chain, tx 0x53bd…38e2 at 2026-10-29 20:24:23 UTC called Binance hot wallet 0x28c6…1d60 from 0x7c86…5CA0 and moved about 1.615B USDT plus RLUSD, wBETH, XAUt and dozens of other tokens to fresh wallet 0x5227…2f8c. Telegram forwards allege the caller was funded via Tornado Cash.

Binance says only that its teams are aware of reports of a potential security issue and are investigating, with no confirmed impact to user funds yet: Binance post.

Forwarded posts also claim Tether froze about $971M USDT linked to the incident, and later Circle froze about $820M USDC, shared via Rickler Feed and WatcherGuru forwards. No freeze was verified on chain in these reads, and no official Binance hack confirmation exists yet.