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Article is by Molly White, who you might recognize from Mastodon and web3isgoinggreat.com:
https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/117526961419935070
I wrote up what we know about the Binance hack so far. By my best estimate, Binance is out around $3 billion after stablecoin issuers froze what they could. Changpeng Zhao is promising Binance will cover it, but he’s legally barred from running the company.
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It’s amazing that people store their life savings in other people’s wallets, lol
Isn’t that every bank?
My bank has nice plush offices I can burn to the ground if they steal it.
Banks are well established at least.
Banks are backed by the government. That’s why people trust them.
People forgot why that is.
Yeah but FDIC insurance goes a long way in people’s mind.
It turns out that watching people lose money to crypto is my kink.
Never let anyone shame you out of it.
Good for them.
Nicely done.
Lotta comments here blaming the victims.
This was likely an instance of social engineering within Binance and nothing to do with the underlying securities, folks.
Are you saying Binance engineers always intended to trigger a steal? Because that’s exactly what I thought when I saw the headline but I’m not well informed about block-chain security.
No, I think someone obtained one of their employees’ credentials via social engineering. It’s not that hard to do, you just call someone and tell them you’re from IT and their password, or security key, or passkey or whatever is expiring and pretend to set them up with a new one or convince them to let you remote into their PC to make some kind of security update.
That’s usually how it happens.
Thank you for explaining!
Sure thing. Have a nice Saturday!
I read they got into a container from an old laptop. If true that’s one I.T. department about to get snapped.
Yeah it was a dev ops engineer’s laptop
Fucking lol. That’s where we’re at today in terms of development and cybersecurity 🤣
Are they really “victims” when they willingly gave their money to an unregulated not-bank?
Yes.
You may not like the product but these people still have a reasonable expectation of security, and they should.
I don’t care for AI girlfriends, but when they convince a teen to off themselves I still acknowledge that the teen is, objectively, a victim even though the product is unregulated.
someone can be a victim and the blame can lie mostly in said victim’s actions.
You may not like the product but these people still have a reasonable expectation of security
I’m a sane human being, therefore my expectancy of safety from any crypto exchange point is zero.
If I’d hold a wallet, I’d likely install the most strict firewall rules out there.
“I’m a sane human being”
Not a great start.
my expectancy of safety from any crypto exchange point is zero
Honestly, I’m skeptical of using dedicated crypto exchanges too. I have somewhere between 15 and 20 percent of my portfolio in crypto, but through a regular brokerages that deal in standard securities like stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. If I had all of my wealth in it, I’d have it all stored in a cold wallet on external media, but even that isn’t 100% foolproof.
There have been several incidents with crypto exchanges, yes. That said, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of major corporations in the US have had significant publicly infamous security breaches within the last decade, so it seems illogical to pretend as if security breaches are somehow unique to the crypto industry.
People who use crypto are not insane.
Not a great start.
Just FYI, when people say that, it rarely means self-bloating/putting in pedestal, it usually means insulting the thing you’re talking about, aka. “only insane would trust to hold large sums on crypto exchange points”, not that I’m super duper sane. A figure of speech
Thank you for the explanation. Have a nice Saturday.
That’s different because we don’t expect teenagers to make good decisions so we try to protect them. All Binance customers are adults.
You expect adults to make good decisions?
This is why the world is the way it is…
We’ll just have to agree to disagree. Have a nice day.
They were victims of being convinced to do that, yes.
Lol.
Sharing is caring, this is good for bitcoin /s
stable coin
looks inside
the rug-pullest mf of them all
I mean its probably not a rug pull. Most likely its a coordinated state sponsored hacking group, like the Lazarus group, who would be my bet for the big winner of this.
I’m curious how much theyll walk away with in the end.
Valid point. At 3 bios I suspect insider involvement tho.
About tree fitty
It was about that time I noticed this “Lazarus Group” was about 8 STORIES TALL, and was a crustacean from the Paleolithic Era!
Doesn’t the title of the article once you tap the link say who did it? Yes, yes it does.
They changed the title of the article since I commented. I am pleased that my speculation was mostly correct however.
https://web.archive.org/web/20261030033426/https://www.citationneeded.news/binance-theft/
^ archive link showing that the title used to be “Attacker gets away with up to 3$ billion from Binance.”
they should call it bitch-coin now
The stable coins are the only ones not stolen, since they have a centralized authority and could freeze the assets.
There are still people who will insist it wasn’t a stupid idea to decide meaningless digital points like the ones you get for helping Pac-Man eat dots are real-life money now.
Because helping Pac-Man eat dots at least takes some effort and impose scarcity, and that’s already better than working for money another man can print for free.
As someone who also disbelieves in crypto, I’m not sure why real-life money shouldn’t be considered fraught.
Oh no! Anyway
Just the normal crypto issues. Buy crypto, lose money.
Hah hah
Ah, so crypto is mainly used to prop up regimes. Got it.
Can’t wait to find out it was social engineering
Hey Binance, it’s your grandson, I’m in trouble and need you to go to target to get some gift cards
Do NOT redeem
