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The cryptocurrency platform Binance reported on Thursday that it was the victim of a major cyberattack affecting approximately $6.3 billion in funds, about half of which were frozen to prevent a massive theft.
The company, the world's largest digital currency exchange by daily trading volume, posted a series of messages on the social network X—at times contradictory—in which it claimed that "user funds are completely safe" but also that it "will cover all losses."
Subsequently, Binance noted on its Spanish-language profile for Latin America that "the total estimated impact is around $6.3 billion."
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"We have worked with blockchain partners to freeze the affected assets, with ~$3 billion frozen on-chain so far," it added.
That figure would be four times greater than the amount affected in what had been, until now, the largest cyberattack of this type: $1.5 billion stolen in February of last year from the Bybit platform.
Blockchain research firm TRM Labs stated on Thursday that it has "high confidence" that the attack was orchestrated by TraderTraitor, a hacker group linked to North Korea, citing "strong information both on-chain and off-chain."
"Several characteristics of this attack match previous thefts linked to North Korea," TRM noted.
TraderTraitor is believed to be part of the Lazarus Group, which rose to fame in 2014 when it was accused of hacking Sony Pictures in retaliation for "The Interview," a film that mocked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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