A Binance engineer thought he was interviewing for a job. Then the hackers pounced

NPR News reports: Hackers, widely believed to be from North Korea, duped a Binance engineer into downloading malicious software that allowed them to pull off a $6.3 billion cyber heist of the crypto exchange. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Europe hide caption The massive $6.3 billion cyber heist suffered by crypto exchange Binance last week may have taken place in only about twenty minutes — but the attacks were months in the making. That's according an initial assessment released by Binance on Tuesday about how it suffered the world's biggest-ever cyber heist by hackers the FBI has identified as being a North Korean state-sponsored unit.

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WilluChill News DeskPublished Tuesday, November 3, 2026 at 9:30 PM UTCUpdated Tuesday, November 3, 2026 at 9:48 PM UTC

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