Binance uncovers more breach points in $6 billion hack

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Binance said investigators uncovered additional breach points in the approximately $6 billion hack after initially suspecting a compromised employee laptop. The exchange has not disclosed what those additional breach points were.In an earlier Oct. 30 security update, the exchange said its preliminary investigation identified a potentially compromised DevOps engineer's laptop that may have allowed an attacker to access an internal service container and initiate unauthorized withdrawals.The disclosure comes as blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs attributed the incident to North Korea-linked TraderTraitor, while independent investigators identified connections between the stolen funds and previous attacks on Bitget and Phemex.Binance investigates withdrawal infrastructureBinance said it found no evidence of wallet private-key leakage.According to TRM Labs' Oct. 29 investigation, attackers transferred about $6 billion from Binance-associated wallets across 10 blockchains, moving most of the assets within about 20 minutes.The affected networks included Ethereum, Bitcoin, Tron, Solana, and the XRP Ledger.TRM found that the attackers began preparing at least 36 hours before executing th...

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