# Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to pull off the $6.3 billion heist

- Source: The Verge
- Published: 2026-11-03T22:04:02+00:00
- Category: Tech
- Original: https://www.theverge.com/news/1025576/binance-cyrpto-theft-explained
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/binance-says-hackers-used-fake-job-interviews-and-an-internal-ai-tool--07cdfa/

The largest crypto theft to date was pulled off by combining some well-known hacking techniques over the course of a few months, according to Binance. A postmortem from the company says the process that started with one developer downloading a tampered installer in June apparently spread by a malicious Google ad, exposing details about the […]

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