Jonathan_Morgan
$BNB.X HACK MEGA THREAD UPDATE
🔹 North Korea (probably) took $6.3B to $6.43B from Binance Thursday night. That’s about 4x Bybit and the biggest theft of anything, ever.
🔹 Fun fact:Bybit, also North Korea, had already taken that title from Saddam’s $1B Iraqi central bank job, so Pyongyang just beat its own record. Saddam’s down to bronze.
🔹 Most of it left in about half an hour starting at 4:04 pm ET, across nine to eleven chains.
🔹 The way in, per Binance, was one DevOps engineer’s laptop. No private keys leaked. Binance’s own signing system signed the withdrawals - Order 66 on itself.
🔹 On $ETH.X , the attacker used EIP-7702 to hijack Binance’s busiest hot wallet. It brought 50 pre-signed authorizations so one would fit. After that it was vampire rules: once you invite it in, it stays until you take the invitation back. That took Binance 3 hours 50 minutes and seven sweeps.
🔹 Tether, $CRCL and friends froze $2.7B to $2.84B. $ARB.X Security Council yanked $30M out of the attacker’s wallet by force.
🔹 Most native coins have no freeze button. Ripple froze its RLUSD, but the 233M $XRP.X is untouchable.
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