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<p><strong>Update 10:45 UTC: trail leads to North Korea, withdrawals within 48 hours.</strong> Investigators at <a href="https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/north-korea-steals-usd-6-36-billion-from-binance-in-the-largest-hack-in-history" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">TRM Labs</a> attribute the Binance hack with high confidence to North Korea's TraderTraitor group, and Chainalysis points to the same group; Binance has not named an attacker. According to TRM Labs, about $6.36 billion left across ten blockchains, about $2.7 billion is frozen, and the attacker holds more than 420,000 ETH and 18,270 BTC across all wallets. Binance <a href="https://x.com/binance/status/2116026356740034858" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">expects</a> to reopen withdrawals within 48 hours; deposits work. Everything in one place: <a href="https://cryptoticker.io/en/binance-hack-north-korea-tradertraitor/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">North Korea behind the Binance hack? What we know</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Update 02:30 UTC: Binance puts the damage at $6.3 billion.</strong> In an <a href="https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/c5a8729a97ac486d963784d96c5642d7" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">official announcement</a> Binance estimates the total impact at around $6.3 billion, of which about $3 billion is frozen on-chain. According to the initial investigation, a DevOps engineer's laptop was compromised, which let the attacker access a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions. Binance says it has found no evidence of a private key leak. The exchange will cover all losses from the SAFU fund and company funds; deposits and withdrawals remain suspended, and an updated proof of reserves will follow.</p>
<p><strong>Update 01:25 UTC: Binance confirms the hack.</strong> Co-founder Yi He wrote at 00:04 UTC that user funds are safe and Binance will cover all hacking losses. Deposits and withdrawals are temporarily suspended while the exchange runs security checks, freezes funds and works with law enforcement. According to on-chain investigator <a href="https://x.com/zachxbt/status/2115972303913935209" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">ZachXBT</a>, more than $2.83 billion is now frozen. Before the freezes, the attacker had supplied 60 million USDT to Aave and borrowed 19,762 wETH, about $45 million, against it, as <a href="https://x.com/mzeller/status/2115940092409770194" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Marc Zeller</a> of the Aave Chan Initiative explains.</p>
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 <p>User funds are safe. Binance will cover all hacking losses. Deposits and withdrawals are temporarily suspended while our team conducts security checks, freezes funds, and works with law enforcement. We will share a full post-mortem once the investigation is complete. Please rely only on official Binance channels for updates.</p>Yi He (@heyibinance) <a href="https://x.com/heyibinance/status/2115958049244631357" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">October 30, 2026</a>
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<p>BNB is the biggest loser of the night. Binance's own token fell from $738.90 at 20:15 UTC to $692.32 at 20:50 UTC, a drop of 6.3% within 35 minutes after a Binance hot wallet was drained of about $2.8 billion. Over 24 hours BNB is down 6.1% according to CoinMarketCap, the weakest of the ten largest cryptocurrencies. Not a single BNB was stolen. The token falls because it is a bet on the exchange itself. What drives the sell-off, how it compares with FTT in 2022 and which levels matter now.</p>
<p>The full timeline of the evening is in our <a href="https://cryptoticker.io/en/crypto-crash-binance-hack-timeline-liquidations/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">crypto crash timeline</a>, the details of the drained wallet in our <a href="https://cryptoticker.io/en/binance-hack-hot-wallet-drained/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Binance hack report</a>.</p>
<h2 id="why-is-bnb-falling-harder-than-bitcoin">Why is BNB falling harder than Bitcoin?</h2>
<p>BNB is tied to Binance in a way Bitcoin is not. It pays for trading-fee discounts on the exchange, powers the BNB Chain and gives access to Binance token launches. When confidence in Binance wobbles, BNB is the most direct way to sell that confidence. Three forces stack up tonight:</p>
<ul>
 <li><strong>Headline risk.</strong> The word "hack" next to "Binance" is enough for algorithms and traders to cut BNB first.</li>
 <li><strong>Leverage.</strong> About $628 million in positions were force-closed within one hour according to CoinGlass data, around $607 million of them longs. Every forced sale pushes the price lower.</li>
 <li><strong>Uncertainty.</strong> Binance only confirmed at 21:24 UTC that it is <a href="https://x.com/binance/status/2115917658680074294" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">investigating reports of a potential security issue</a>. Until the exchange confirms and covers the loss, sellers have the upper hand.</li>
</ul>
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<h2 id="bnb-price-tonight-the-numbers">BNB price tonight: the numbers</h2>
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   <th>Time (UTC)</th>
   <th>BNB price</th>
   <th>Change</th>
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   <td>20:15</td>
   <td>$738.90</td>
   <td>before the outflow</td>
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   <td>20:50</td>
   <td>$692.32</td>
   <td>−6.3%, evening low</td>
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   <td>21:25</td>
   <td>$710.75</td>
   <td>−3.8% vs. 20:15</td>
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<p>Prices from <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bnb" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CoinGecko</a> in five-minute steps. The bounce from the low came after Tether and Circle reported freezes: Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino <a href="https://x.com/paoloardoino/status/2115918000373346709" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">more than 1.567 billion USDT</a>, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire <a href="https://x.com/jerallaire/status/2115916207463481846" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">more than 800 million USDC</a>. Together that is about $2.4 billion of the roughly $2.8 billion that left the wallet.</p>
<h2 id="is-this-another-ftt-moment">Is this another FTT moment?</h2>
<p>The comparison many traders draw tonight is FTX in November 2022, when the exchange token FTT collapsed within days. The difference matters. FTX had lent out customer money and used FTT as collateral on its own balance sheet, so the token's fall exposed a hole. Before the hack Binance's public wallets held just under $145 billion in customer assets according to DefiLlama, excluding its own tokens such as BNB; the damage of around $6.3 billion that Binance reports equals a little over 4% of that, and about half of it is frozen. Binance also has a track record of covering hacks: in May 2019 it replaced 7,000 stolen Bitcoin from its SAFU emergency fund.</p>
<figure><img src="https://cryptoticker-strapi-media.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/bnb_price_crash_binance_hack_ftt_comparison_3_9bdbcf9596.webp" alt="Vault door slightly open with golden light from inside" width="1920" height="1080">
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<p><strong>More on the Binance hack</strong></p>
<ul>
 <li><a href="https://cryptoticker.io/en/binance-hack-hot-wallet-drained/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Binance hack: how the hot wallet was drained</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://cryptoticker.io/en/binance-hack-on-chain-analysis/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">On-chain analysis: what the blockchain shows about the hack</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://cryptoticker.io/en/crypto-crash-binance-hack-timeline-liquidations/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Live ticker and timeline: the crypto crash after the hack</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://cryptoticker.io/en/tether-freeze-usdt-binance-hack-how-much-frozen/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">USDT frozen: what Tether and Circle really blocked</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://cryptoticker.io/en/binance-withdrawals-solana-xrp-paused-after-hack/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Binance withdrawals: which networks are paused</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://cryptoticker.io/en/is-this-the-end-how-low-can-bitcoin-fall-binance-hack/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Is this the end? Three scenarios for Bitcoin</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://cryptoticker.io/en/ethereum-crash-binance-hacker-sits-on-195k-eth/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ethereum: the hacker sits on 195,000 ETH</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://cryptoticker.io/en/solana-crash-below-100-binance-hack-sol-80/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Solana below $100: is $80 next?</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://cryptoticker.io/en/biggest-crypto-hacks-in-history-binance/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">The biggest crypto hacks in history</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://cryptoticker.io/en/how-to-short-bitcoin-crash-bitget/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">How to short Bitcoin in the crash</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://cryptoticker.io/en/why-is-crypto-down-crypto-crash-reason-today/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Why is crypto down today?</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="bnb-price-levels-to-watch">BNB price levels to watch</h2>
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   <th>Level</th>
   <th>Price</th>
   <th>Distance from $710.75</th>
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   <td>Evening low, Oct 29</td>
   <td>$692.32</td>
   <td>−2.6%</td>
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   <td>90-day low (Aug 2)</td>
   <td>$574.72</td>
   <td>−19.1%</td>
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   <td>12-month low (Jul 1)</td>
   <td>$545.86</td>
   <td>−23.2%</td>
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   <td>12-month high (Oct 30, 2025)</td>
   <td>$1,107.54</td>
   <td>+55.8%</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>
<p>Levels from CoinGecko daily closes. They are not a forecast, but a map of where buyers stepped in over the past months.</p>
<h2 id="what-bnb-holders-can-do-now">What BNB holders can do now</h2>
<ul>
 <li><strong>Separate the token from the exchange.</strong> BNB on Binance carries exchange risk twice: price risk and custody risk. Withdrawing BNB to your own wallet removes the second. Our <a href="https://cryptoticker.io/en/comparison/hardware-wallets/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">hardware wallet comparison</a> shows devices that support BNB Chain.</li>
 <li><strong>Wait for Binance's confirmation.</strong> A statement that the loss is covered would be the strongest signal for BNB. Asian trading starts around midnight UTC.</li>
 <li><strong>Hedge instead of guessing.</strong> If you want protection against further falls, our guide <a href="https://cryptoticker.io/en/how-to-short-bitcoin-crash-bitget/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">how to short crypto</a> explains the options and their risks.</li>
</ul>
<p>This article is not investment advice. Crypto assets are highly volatile and you can lose your entire investment.</p>

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