FBI confirms North Korea’s role in $6 billion Binance hack, asks DeFi community to block BTC, ETH, SOL addresses
Summary
The FBI has officially verified North Korea's involvement in a massive cryptocurrency theft involving Binance. Federal authorities are now urging decentralized finance platforms to blacklist specific digital wallet addresses associated with the attackers. Meanwhile, blockchain investigators report that the perpetrators continue expanding their network of wallets to move the stolen assets.
While the FBI listed hundreds of addresses in its notice, Chainalysis said the Binance attackers have already used "thousands addresses," and expects this number to continue growing.
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