Bloomberg · Sidhartha Shukla ·

Blockaid: Binance hackers stole ~$2.5B, or 40% of the $6.3B haul, in a single Ethereum transaction using wallet permissions that cost just $15 to set up

The hackers who stole $6.3 billion from Binance last week found a way to take 40% of the stolen cryptocurrency in one hit …

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Blockaid: Binance hackers stole ~$2.5B, or 40% of the $6.3B haul, in a single Ethereum transaction using wallet permissions that cost just $15 to set up

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Bloomberg — Blockaid: Binance hackers stole ~$2.5B, or 40% of the $6.3B haul, in a single Ethereum transaction using wallet permissions that cost just $15 to set up ↗

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