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Binance's $6.3 billion hack began with a fake job interview, exchange says
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- Binance revealed that a massive $6.3 billion security breach originated from a fake job interview.
- North Korean-linked hackers spent months targeting exchange employees and breaching internal systems.
- The attackers eventually exploited the platform's hot-wallet signing infrastructure by utilizing Ethereum's EIP-7702 mechanism to carry out the devastating exploit on the cryptocurrency exchange.
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- CoinDeskBinance's $6.3 billion hack began with a fake job interview, exchange says · 3 hours agoRead on CoinDesk
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