THE STREET · 2026-11-02 00:24 UTC

Binance's hack has me fearing phone chargers

The FBI says North Korea stole over $6 billion from Binance in what it calls the largest crypto hack ever; Binance has covered about 95% of the impact. The article discusses 'juice jacking' - using tampered chargers to access phone data - noting the FCC has no confirmed cases but researchers demonstrated ChoiceJacking attacks that bypassed phone security on multiple vendors' devices in 2025. Modern iPhones and Pixels now require biometric authentication for USB data connections, but many Android phones remain vulnerable to these attacks.

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