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Trump says US would contact North Korea if it’s tied to the $6.3 billion Binance hack

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The president's remarks follow an FBI attribution to North Korea's TraderTraitor group after roughly $6.3 billion was drained across ten blockchains President Donald Trump says the US would reach out to North Korean officials if investigators confirm Pyongyang was behind the Binance hack. That breach drained approximately $6.3 billion from the world’s largest crypto exchange. Trump made the remarks on October 30 and 31, as the fallout from the October 29 breach spread. He framed outreach to North Korean authorities as conditional on confirmation of the link. The attackers took digital assets spread across ten different blockchains. Most of the funds moved in about 20 minutes. On October 31, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) backed that attribution.

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