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Crypto: Binance Hack Began With a Fake Job Interview

Cointribune·November 4, 2026·1 min read
Crypto: Binance Hack Began With a Fake Job Interview

A fake job interview helped hackers infect a Binance engineer's work computer before the $6.34 billion crypto theft on October 29, 2026. In a report released on November 3, the exchange described a months-long infiltration involving malicious software, stolen credentials and the misuse of an internal AI tool, ultimately reaching transaction authorization infrastructure.

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