Binance says hackers used fake job interview to breach computer before $6.3 billion attack

Binance said on Tuesday hackers used a bogus job interview to compromise a computer and an internal artificial intelligence tool to gain control ​over the company’s wallets before draining $6.3 billion worth of crypto, in what could ‌be the largest-ever financial heist.

In a initial report into what went wrong, the world’s largest crypto exchange detailed a sophisticated hacking endeavour that began with an advertisement for a tampered version of a ​coding tool in June and set in chain a series of security breaches ​that culminated in the theft of the crypto on October 29.

The ⁠FBI has blamed a North Korean hacking group, a claim North Korea has rejected. Binance ​has said it is repaying all customers who have lost funds through the hack.

Binance said ​that the attack started when an employee from its wallet developer team in June downloaded an AI tool that had been tampered with. The crypto exchange detected this, replaced the device and changed credentials ​but the employee’s role and that of others on the wallet team were exposed ​to the hacker.

Then in September a second software engineer seeking a new job downloaded “malicious code repository” onto ‌his ⁠computer after interviewing for what…

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