BREAKING: Early numbers show over $5.6B in assets drained from Binance.

First reported Oct 29, 2026, 21:52 UTC

Source reports

  • BREAKING: Early numbers show over $5.6B in assets drained from Binance. $2.29 billion $USDT $1.45 billion $BTC $823 million $USDC $451 million $ETH This is the largest hack in crypto history. Hack may still be ongoing. — @world_xyz (X), Oct 29, 2026, 21:52 UTC
  • BINANCE HACK: the full story > oct 28: a wallet gets funded through tornado cash > oct 29, 16:00 UTC: it deploys a malicious contract > 20:20: binance hot wallet 14 signs a permission pointing to it > 20:24: one tx sweeps wallet 14: 167K ETH + 1.6B USDT > 24 seconds later… — @inno_sol (X), Oct 29, 2026, 21:53 UTC
  • It looks like Binance was just hacked for around $5.3 billion worth of assets. The largest pieces: $1.66 billion in USDT 17,985 $BTC, about $1.45 billion $767m in USDC ETH and dozens of smaller tokens follow. The total is still a small part of what Binance holds on-chain. — @glassnode (X), Oct 29, 2026, 21:59 UTC
  • It looks like Binance was just hacked for around $5.3 billion worth of assets. The largest pieces: $1.66 billion in USDT 17,985 $BTC, about $1.45 billion $767m in USDC ETH and dozens of smaller tokens follow. The total is still a small part of what Binance holds on-chain. — Rickler Feed, Oct 29, 2026, 22:01 UTC
  • It looks like Binance was just hacked for around $5.3 billion worth of assets. The largest pieces: $1.66 billion in USDT 17,985 $BTC, about $1.45 billion $767m in USDC ETH and dozens of smaller tokens follow. The total is still a small part of what Binance holds on-chain. — Закрепи.sender, Oct 29, 2026, 22:01 UTC

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