Binance uncovers more breach points in $6 billion hack
Binance said investigators uncovered additional breach points in the approximately $6 billion hack after initially suspecting a compromised employee laptop. The exchange has not disclosed what those additional breach poi...
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Binance said investigators uncovered additional breach points in the approximately $6 billion hack after initially suspecting a compromised employee laptop. The exchange has not disclosed what those additional breach points were. In an earlier Oct. 30 security update, the exchange said its preliminary investigation identified a potentially compromised DevOps engineer's laptop that may have allowed…
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