FBI Ties North Korea to Multibillion-Dollar Binance Hack, Seeks Help Blocking Addresses
The FBI has attributed a hack of Binance valued in the billions to North Korea and asked the DeFi community to block wallet addresses linked to the stolen funds.
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has attributed a major hack affecting Binance to North Korea and is seeking private-sector assistance to prevent the laundering of the stolen digital assets, according to reporting by CoinDesk and Cointelegraph.
The two outlets reported differing figures for the scale of the incident. CoinDesk described the hack as valued at $6 billion, while Cointelegraph reported the amount as $6.3 billion.
According to CoinDesk, the FBI published a notice listing hundreds of wallet addresses and called on the decentralized finance (DeFi) community to block addresses tied to Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana. Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis told CoinDesk that the attackers had already used thousands of addresses and expects that number to keep rising.
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