Binance attack damage estimate reaches $6 billion

Binance attack damage estimate reaches $6 billion
Binance attack damage estimate reaches $6 billion

Scale of losses updated

Digital asset market experts and specialists monitoring on-chain data have recorded an increase in the estimated potential damage from the large-scale cyberattack on the Binance platform. According to new calculations, the total amount of lost funds reaches $6 billion.

Structure of withdrawn assets

According to preliminary conclusions by analysts, the main assets withdrawn by the perpetrators were:

  • Ethereum — amounting to over $3.52 billion;
  • Bitcoin — approximately $1.45 billion.

In addition to these two main assets, losses in other networks have been documented. Compromised wallets lost Tron tokens worth nearly $628 million. A total of $38 million was also withdrawn in L2 solution ecosystems, specifically Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base.

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