Binance’s $6.3bn heist: how one laptop opened the door to the biggest crypto theft in history

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has confirmed that attackers stole an estimated $6.3 billion (around £4.7 billion) in digital assets on Thursday evening, in what is now the largest cryptocurrency theft on record. The figure is roughly four times the $1.5 billion taken from Bybit in February 2025, the previous record-holder. […]

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