Binance's $6.3 billion hack began with a fake job interview, exchange says

CoinDesk · Tue, 03 Nov 2026 14:53:19 GMT

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Excerpt from CoinDesk: “North Korea-linked attackers spent months compromising Binance employees and internal systems before exploiting its hot-wallet signing infrastructure through Ethereum's EIP-7702 mechanism.”

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