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#1 The Hacker News general October 30, 2026 at 04:14 UTC

Binance Suffers Security Breach Affecting $6.3 Billion in Assets, Nearly $3 Billion Frozen

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

Binance confirmed a security incident impacting approximately $6.3 billion in assets, with nearly $3 billion frozen on-chain. Tether and Circle separately froze over 1.567 billion USDT and 800 million USDC linked to the breach, respectively. If confirmed at full scale, this would rank among the largest cryptocurrency exchange hacks in history, with significant implications for exchange security posture and stablecoin issuer incident response capabilities.

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