Binance ties $6.3 billion hack to fake job interviews and a compromised internal AI tool
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Binance’s postmortem linked the Oct. 29 theft of $6.3 billion to a campaign that began in June when an engineer installed a tampered package while setting up an AI coding tool; the exchange replaced the device but attackers had already learned about its wallet team. In September, fake recruiters tricked another engineer with a malicious coding assignment, and on Oct. 20 they used that computer plus an internal AI tool to access two more engineers before breaching wallet infrastructure.
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