Binance $6B hack sends North Korea’s funds across 11 chains

On October 29, attackers the FBI ties to North Korea took $6.36B from Binance, and North Korea's thefts have grown every year since 2023. Attackers the FBI ties to North Korea stole $6.36B from Binance on October 29. Our report is two reports in one: what happened, and where the stolen assets are going and what they turn into. We look at which assets the freeze stopped, what survived, what North Korea’s last theft above $1B became, and what the pattern suggests for flows from future hacks. North Korea’s Binance heist: the scale $6.36B Taken from Binance hot wallets, Oct 29 (TRM Labs) 13.6x The theft against North Korea’s 2025 goods exports ~12,000 Attacker wallets on 11 chains in 3.5 days (Elliptic) The scale of the theft: what was taken, how it compares with North Korea’s economy, and how widely the attacker spread it. Data as of Nov 4, 2026. Analysis, not investment advice. Key findings Freezes caught most of the stolen stablecoins and none of the bitcoin. We show the split by asset type, and how much the attacker sold before the first freeze landed. We trace where the roughly 584,000 ETH and 18,270 BTC that survived are sitting, and the wallet moves that would show them heading ...