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Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool

Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to pull off the $6.3 billion heist

Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool

TL;DRBinance hackers used fake job interviews and internal AI tools to steal $6.3 billion over months.

Why it matters: Shows how social engineering + insider access remains crypto's biggest security vulnerability, not just code flaws.

The largest crypto theft to date was pulled off by combining some well-known hacking techniques over the course of a few months, according to Binance. A postmortem from the company says the process started in June with one developer downloading a tampered installer apparently…

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