TraderTraitor: 6 Hacks, $8.57B in 20 Months

Rickler Feed (@rickler_feed), Oct 30, 2026, 08:23 UTC

TraderTraitor: 6 Hacks, $8.57B in 20 Months TraderTraitor hit Binance for $6.36B, the biggest crypto hack ever. Since Bybit in February 2025, the North Korean unit has taken about $8.57B in six attacks on exchanges and bridges. So far the link to these hacks rests on on-chain tracing: ZachXBT matched Binance and Bitget loot at one THORChain address. Not one of them used a smart contract bug. Each started with people or infrastructure: a Safe{Wallet} developer's PC, a fake recruiter, hacked RPC nodes, a vendor zero-day and a DevOps laptop. Only stablecoins get frozen. Most of Binance's froze…

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• 🚨 UPDATE: North Korea’s TraderTraitor group, tied to the $388M Bitget exploit, is likely also behind the $6.3B Binance hack, says ZachXBT.

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