FBI Pins $6 Billion Binance Theft on North Korea’s TraderTraitor, Publishes Hacker Wallet List

The FBI formally attributed the theft of more than $6 billion from Binance to North Korea in an alert dated Oct. 31, saying hackers it tracks as TraderTraitor carried out the attack on or about Oct. 29. According to the alert, the bureau, the U.S. Secret Service and IRS Criminal Investigation have watched the hackers turn stolen assets mostly into ether , and expect them to keep laundering through DeFi and instant swap services. The three agencies asked crypto infrastructure providers, from THORChain and RPC node operators to instant exchanges, DeFi platforms, analytics firms and other service providers, to refuse transactions touching the listed wallets or funds that came from them. The list names 19 Bitcoin addresses and one Solana address alongside 608 Ethereum addresses .

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