Binance points to engineer’s hacked laptop in $6.3B breach

Update (Oct. 30 at 2:44 am UTC): This article has been updated to include Binance’s preliminary investigation into the security breach.

Binance said its initial investigation into the multi-billion crypto breach has pointed to a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop.

The exchange said the laptop compromise may have allowed an attacker to access a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions. It said it had found no evidence of a wallet private-key leak, though its investigation remains ongoing.

Speaking to Cointelegraph earlier on Thursday, Ben-Natan said Blockaid’s preliminary assessment also pointed to “key misuse,” in which attackers trick or compromise a signing system into authorizing malicious transactions without extracting the underlying private key