Someone stole $5.6 billion from Binance today, the biggest crypto exchange on earth, and within a few hours $2.4 billion of it was frozen…

First reported Oct 30, 2026, 03:43 UTC

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Someone stole $5.6 billion from Binance today, the biggest crypto exchange on earth, and within a few hours $2.4 billion of it was frozen by two companies. The $3.2 billion nobody can touch is the actual crypto. The biggest chunk left in a single Ethereum transaction. One… — @aakashgupta (X), Oct 30, 2026, 03:43 UTC
BINANCE JUST HAD $5.57 BILLION DRAINED IN WHAT COULD BE THE BIGGEST CRYPTO HACK EVER. ALL DEPOSITS AND WITHDRAWALS ARE FROZEN. if you've never heard of it: Binance is the world's largest crypto exchange. think of it as the biggest bank and stock market of crypto in one app first… — @volero87 (X), Oct 30, 2026, 04:22 UTC
lazarus group stole $6 billion from binance using one laptop > what happened - last night, a hacker broke into the laptop of one of binance's engineers - they got into the system that handles binance's withdrawals - they took control of binance's biggest online wallet and… — @0xmani (X), Oct 30, 2026, 08:04 UTC

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