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Binance says $6.3bn of crypto affected in suspected record hack
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Binance, the world's biggest crypto exchange, says about half of the affected assets are now frozen and that it will cover all losses. Its first checks point to a compromised engineer's laptop, which let an attacker make unauthorised withdrawals. Analytics firms Chainalysis and TRM Labs link the attack to North Korean hacking group TraderTraitor.
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