FBI links North Korea to $6 billion Binance hack and urges DeFi to block crypto addresses

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The FBI has confirmed that North Korea was behind a hack of Binance estimated at $6 billion. In a notice, the agency listed hundreds of cryptocurrency addresses tied to the attack and asked the decentralized finance community to block bitcoin, ether and solana transactions to them. Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis reports that the attackers have already used thousands of addresses. It expects that number to keep rising, which could complicate efforts to trace and freeze the stolen funds.

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