Investing.com - Hackers stole $6.36 billion from Binance on Thursday evening in the largest crypto theft on record, sending cryptocurrency-linked equities down in Friday premarket trading. Still guessing which stocks will beat the market? Our AI portfolio updates monthly and is outperforming the S&P 500 by 118%. See this month's list » Most of the funds were swept across ten blockchains in approximately 20 minutes beginning at 20:05 UTC on Thursday, and the breach appears to have originated from a compromised laptop belonging to a Binance engineer. The theft is roughly four times the size of the previous record, the $1.5 billion Bybit hack in February 2025, which the FBI also pinned on the same North Korean group.
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