### The $6.3 billion lesson of the week
The largest crypto theft on record did not break cryptography. It broke a laptop. Binance's own account of the October 29, 2026 attack says it may have begun with a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop, giving attackers access to a service container used to submit unauthorised withdrawals; the company later found additional breaches, and software designed...
What happenedThe largest crypto theft on record now has a likely attribution. Blockchain investigators at TRM Labs, Chainalysis and Elliptic, along with on-chain investigator ZachXBT, have linked the roughly $6.3 to $6.4 billion Binance hack of October 29, 2026, to North Korea's TraderTraitor group, a subunit of the Lazarus Group. TRM attributed the attack to TraderTraitor with high confidence,...
