Cryptocurrency hacking: Binance announces the resumption of withdrawals this Sunday
The platform suffered a massive hack on Thursday and suspended withdrawals from its customers to stop the bleeding. The estimated damage is record, at $6.3 billion.
The world's first cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, which suffered a spectacular digital heist, announced on Sunday that some of its customers could resume making withdrawals. “The first round of withdrawals (...) is now open on the bitcoin network,” the company said on X.
“Binance will bear the financial impact of the stolen funds, not our users,” she previously announced, still on The American Federal Police (FBI) formally accused North Korea on Saturday of the record theft of $6.3 billion thanks to the Binance hack.
American investigators claim to have identified, behind this unprecedented theft, the group of North Korean hackers known as TraderTraitor, and found that the thieves were converting the embezzled funds into Ether, the cryptocurrency of the Ethereum network.
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2 independent newsrooms report this story. Le Figaro published it first, 1 h before the last one.
- Le Figaro1 Nov, 09:08Cryptocurrency hacking: Binance announces the resumption of withdrawals this Sunday ↗Figures: 6.3 milliards
- BFM Business1 Nov, 10:16
- 6.3 milliards (Le Figaro, BFM Business)
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