Binance hit by $5.8B hack as Tether and Circle freeze billions

Cointelegraph · Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:24:36 GMT

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Excerpt from Cointelegraph: “Binance is investigating a multibillion-dollar security breach involving its Ethereum wallets, with Tether and Circle freezing more than $2.36 billion in stablecoins.”

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