Synthetix claws back SNX as Binance hacker locks $3.5M in Newton contract by mistake

Synthetix has recovered the SNX stolen in Binance’s $6.3 billion hack, while the attacker accidentally locked about 8 million Newton tokens in a dead contract. They are two of at least nine moves against the haul. At least nine moves against one haul Binance confirmed that about $6.3 billion was stolen in what is now the largest exploit in crypto history. It is over four times the $1.5 billion Bybit hack of February 2025, which was the largest before now. Several investigators have tied the attack to North Korea’s TraderTraitor unit. Binance has blamed a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop. So far, close to $3 billion of the stolen funds have been frozen or locked across chains. Issuers of centralized stablecoins have been responsible for freezing the largest amounts.

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