Digital assets

North Korea crypto hack: the FBI names it for Binance's $6.3bn, near all it stole before

The FBI said on 31 October that North Korea stole more than $6bn in crypto from Binance, the world's biggest crypto exchange, on or about 29 October, its alert says. That makes the North Korea crypto hack the largest theft the industry has seen, and a jump in scale even for a state that has made stealing crypto a source of revenue. One night's haul comes close to everything North Korea had stolen in crypto before it: $6.75bn up to the end of 2025, by the count of the blockchain analysts at Chainalysis.