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FBI confirms North Korea's TraderTraitor behind the $6.3B Binance hack, asks firms to block its addresses

Two days after the biggest exchange theft on record, the FBI, Secret Service and IRS-CI formally blamed North Korea's TraderTraitor unit, part of the Lazarus Group. The bureau asked node operators, swap services and analytics firms to refuse transactions from the addresses used to move the money.

• The FBI list holds over 600 Ethereum addresses, just under 20 Bitcoin addresses and one Solana address.
• Stablecoin issuers have frozen more than $2.4B; Binance says it has replaced 90% of the stolen funds.
• Binance targeted Sunday 1 November to restart withdrawals; the restart was not yet confirmed at press time.