Binance estimates the total impact of Thursday's security incident at around $6.3 billion, with about $3 billion frozen onchain. The exchange initially pointed to a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop but now says its investigation has uncovered 'additional points of breach.' Binance said it will cover all losses from its SAFU fund and company funds, and has reopened deposits while withdrawals remain suspended during a security revamp. Blockchain analytics firm Arkham put the haul at $6.01 billion taken from Binance hot wallets across nine blockchains, of which $2.80 billion was frozen by issuers and $2.9 billion could still be moved. Binance said it has found no evidence of any wallet private key leak.
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BNB/USDT
▼ Likely negativeBNB
Relevance: high
| Market | Crypto |
|---|---|
| Exchange | Binance |
| Sector | Exchange tokens |
| Market cap | $97.5B |
| Close on 10/29/2026 | 698.46 |
| Change that session | -8.08% |
BTC/USDT
▼ Likely negativeBitcoin
Relevance: low
| Market | Crypto |
|---|---|
| Exchange | Binance |
| Sector | Layer 1 |
| Market cap | $1.6T |
| Close on 10/29/2026 | 77,991.89 |
| Change that session | -4.12% |
ETH/USDT
▼ Likely negativeEthereum
Relevance: low
| Market | Crypto |
|---|---|
| Exchange | Binance |
| Sector | Layer 1 |
| Market cap | $285.6B |
| Close on 10/29/2026 | 2,253.13 |
| Change that session | -4.52% |
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