{
  "id": 17583859,
  "title": "Digitalwährungen: Binance gibt Kundenauszahlungen nach Hackerangriff frei",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/01/digitalwahrungen-binance-gibt-kundenauszahlungen-nach-hackerangriff",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-01T10:55:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-internet/digitalwaehrungen-binance-gibt-kundenauszahlungen-nach-hackerangriff-frei/100266432.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "In the wake of a unprecedented cyber attack on Binance, the world's largest digital currency exchange, the platform's operations are gradually returning to normal. The company has begun to resume customer withdrawals in the first phase, while simultaneously announcing that it has now balanced around 95% of the stolen funds from its own company reserves - previously, only 90% was mentioned. Binance informed users that it would provide an updated reserve proof (\"Proof of Reserves\") on this Monday to restore confidence. This cryptographic method allows users to mathematically verify whether their individual account balances are indeed backed by real assets in the company's wallets. If the platform's claims are confirmed, the largest hacking incident in crypto history would end favorably for customers, as the exchange seems to be compensating the billion-dollar losses entirely on its own. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) attributed the theft of digital currencies worth over six billion dollars (approximately five point four billion euros) to the North Korean hacker group TraderTraitor. The FBI warned in a joint statement with the Secret Service and IRS-CI of attempts by the attackers to conceal their ill-gotten gains, primarily exchanging the stolen assets into the second-largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum (ETH). The FBI advised crypto platform operators to block transactions originating from or linked to addresses used by TraderTraitor to launder the stolen funds. Despite the record damage, the market reacted with moderate losses: the Bitcoin price dropped briefly from over 80,000 to around 76,000 dollars after the attack but recovered shortly thereafter. Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao, known in the industry as \"CZ,\" explained the cryptocurrency's resilience in a post on the online platform X: \"Six and a half billion dollars is indeed the largest amount measured in dollars, but not in Bitcoin.\" He drew a comparison to the collapse of the Mt. Gox exchange in 2014, where around 650,000 bitcoins were stolen - more than five percent of the entire circulating supply. The impact of the market was largely determined not only by the sheer dollar value but also by the percentage of the total amount of the currency, the number of affected users, and most importantly, who would bear the losses. Since Binance covered the losses from its own funds and protected its customers, a systemic shock was avoided.",
  "summary": "Nach dem Rekord-Hackerangriff auf Binance kommen die Kunden der Kryptobörse mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit glimpflich davon. Sie können inzwischen Ihre Einlagen auch wieder abheben.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}