Crypto news on Friday, October 30, 2026
In Crypto on Friday, October 30, 2026: Binance $6.3B hack: crypto's largest breach ever. Also: Exchange froze assets and halted trading after discovering security breach affecting billions in customer funds; Hackers obtained 18,270 Bitcoin that cannot be frozen, complicating recovery efforts for stolen cryptocurrency.
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- Binance suffered $6.3 billion theft attributed to North Korean hackers, crypto's largest hack ever.TRM Labs ·
- Exchange froze assets and halted trading after discovering security breach affecting billions in customer funds.Reuters ·
- Hackers obtained 18,270 Bitcoin that cannot be frozen, complicating recovery efforts for stolen cryptocurrency.Bloomberg.com ·
- Institutional crypto investors rushing to withdraw funds from exchanges following Binance security incident.Yahoo Finance ·
- Bitcoin and Ethereum prices fell sharply as market reacted to breach and broader industry concerns.Al Jazeera ·
- Other crypto firms have frozen more than $2.5 billion in assets as precautionary measure.Axios ·
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