How Hackers Drained $6.3B From Binance
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How Hackers Drained $6.3B From Binance

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 30, 202622 min
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Overnight brought the biggest heist in crypto history, as hackers drained $6.3 billion from Binance. Amazon’s AI spending soared while retail growth stalled, Spotify eyed a $5-a-month AI remix tool, and longreads covered El Niño forecasting and old-time fiddlers. Binance says initial investigation suggests a compromised DevOps laptop may have enabled a ~$6.3B hack; Tether froze 1.5B+ USDT and Circle froze 800M+ USDC (The Block) Binance raced to cover losses from the biggest crypto heist ever; freezes recovered ~$3B, leaving hackers — attributed to North Korea’s TraderTraitor group — with ~$3.3B, against a $1.23B SAFU reserve plus company funds (WS...

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Welcome to the Tech Rewrite Home for Friday, October 30, 2026. I'm Brad McCullough. Today, overnight brought the biggest heist in crypto history as hackers drained 6.3 billion from Binance. Amazon's AI spending soared while retail growth stalled. Spotify eyed a $5 a month AI remix tool and the long reads cover AI, El Nino forecasting,

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