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Smart-contract exploits, bridge hacks, phishing campaigns, and exchange breaches cost the crypto industry billions every year. Our security coverage reports each major incident as it surfaces — root cause where known, on-chain forensic trails, attacker addresses, fund flows through mixers and bridges, recovery efforts, and post-mortems published by the affected protocols and audit firms. We also follow the white-hat ecosystem, bug bounty programs at Immunefi and Code4rena, ongoing audits, and the security-tooling vendors (formal verification, runtime monitoring) working to reduce the next breach.

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Binance Reports $6.3 Billion Hack as US Officials Investigate and Lawmakers Push Crypto Rules

Binance is covering losses from a hack that drained roughly $6.3 to $6.4 billion across about 10 blockchains, according ...

Oct 30, 2026, 09:18 PM
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Suspected $6.3 Billion Binance Breach Pushes Bitcoin, Ether and BNB Lower

Bitcoin and Ether fell after a suspected $6.3 billion security breach at Binance, with BNB dropping more than 8% accordi...

Oct 30, 2026, 08:38 PM
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Analysts Urge Buying Crypto Stocks After $6.3 Billion Binance Hack

Analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald, TD Cowen and Compass Point told clients to buy crypto-linked equities after a roughly $6....

Oct 30, 2026, 08:08 PM
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U.S. Sanctions 11 Over North Korean IT Worker Crypto Laundering Network

The U.S. Treasury sanctioned 10 individuals and one entity tied to North Korean IT worker schemes that route wages to th...

Oct 30, 2026, 05:59 PM
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Binance $6.3B Breach: Circle Freezes $800M USDC as Secret Service and FBI Join Recovery

Binance is working with the US Secret Service, the FBI and Circle after an October 29 breach drained roughly $6.3 billio...

Oct 30, 2026, 05:58 PM
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Lazarus Group Suspected in Binance Hot Wallet Theft of $6.3 Billion

Blockchain investigators have linked the October 29 theft of roughly $6 billion from Binance to North Korea's Lazarus Gr...

Oct 30, 2026, 04:59 PM
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Musk Warns AI Agents Could Exploit Crypto as Binance-Linked Attacker Borrows $44.6M on Aave

Elon Musk said superintelligent AI agents could eventually exploit crypto systems to obtain funds for themselves, after ...

Oct 30, 2026, 04:49 PM
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Binance Exploiter Sells FUN Token, Driving 90%+ Drop in Uniswap Pool

A hacker tied to a Binance exploit sold large amounts of the little-known 2017 token FUN, along with smaller tokens RAD ...

Oct 30, 2026, 04:49 PM
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Binance Hot Wallet Outflows Prompt CZ Pledge; Investigation Ongoing

Binance is investigating a suspected hack that moved an estimated $2.5 billion to $3.5 billion from its hot wallets on O...

Oct 30, 2026, 04:39 PM
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Binance Finds Wider Breach in $6.3 Billion Hack, Targets Sunday Withdrawal Restart

Binance said it has identified additional points of breach beyond an initially suspected compromised engineer's laptop i...

Oct 30, 2026, 04:39 PM
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Binance Founders Trade Public Posts After $6.4B Hack; Sources Differ on Funding Picture

Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao publicly cited SpaceX shares he values above $1 billion while urging Elon Musk to stop...

Oct 30, 2026, 04:28 PM
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Binance Breach Drives $1.57B in Crypto Liquidations as Bitcoin Falls Below $77,000

A reported $6.3 billion security breach at Binance triggered sharp losses across major cryptocurrencies and roughly $1.5...

Oct 30, 2026, 04:09 PM
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