UNCHAINED · 2026-11-13 10:46 UTC

Court Order Lets DOJ Lock Up $1.2 Billion of North Korea's Stolen Binance Crypto

The U.S. DOJ has court authorization to seize or restrain more than $1.2 billion of crypto North Korean hackers stole from Binance, which the department says was over $6 billion taken on or about Oct. 29. Government and private-sector efforts have frozen more than $2.7 billion in total, with the $1.2 billion included in that figure. The FBI links the FaceStealer scheme to more than $400 million in theft over 18 months and says it disrupted the cloud infrastructure behind it.

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