FBI Names North Korea’s TraderTraitor in the Binance Theft — and Asks Node Operators to Block 600-Plus Addresses
A ~$6B hack of Binance is triggering emergency freezes, DeFi contagion, regulatory calls, and a partial recovery effort across the crypto ecosystem.
The FBI, with the Secret Service and IRS-CI, confirmed in a Saturday notice that North Korea’s TraderTraitor group was behind the Binance theft, and urged private-sector entities — THORNode and RPC node operators, DeFi services, instant exchanges and analytics firms — to block transactions from over 600 Ethereum addresses, just under 20 Bitcoin addresses and one Solana address. President Trump said “we’re learning about it” and that his administration would talk to North Korea. A THORChain co-founder responded that node operators hold no non-public information, per coindoo
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Binance suffers $6 billion hack, reportedly involving North Korea
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- FBI Confirms North Korea Behind Binance Hack, Seeks Blocks · coindoo.com · T2
- Binance suffers $6 billion hack, reportedly involving North Korea · youtube.com · T2
- FBI confirms North Korea's role in $6 billion Binance hack, asks DeFi community to block BTC, ETH, SOL addresses · coindesk.com · T1
- 💡💡💡(1) This is bound to have big geopolitical implications, given NoKo’s denial today. 👀… · x.com · T2
