Binance lost $6.3B without leaking a single private key
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A reported $6.3 billion theft from Binance's operational accounts reportedly came through a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop rather than any leaked private keys, with attackers abusing internal service containers to dispatch withdrawals that the system treated as legitimate.