CBS · 2026-11-13 10:52 UTC

FBI recovers $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency stolen from Binance

The FBI said it seized more than $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency reported stolen from Binance last month, from a theft of about $6.3 billion. The FBI previously attributed the Binance theft to a North Korean hacking group known as TraderTraitor. U.S. government and private sector have frozen more than $2.7 billion of the stolen funds in total; the Justice Department obtained court authorization to seize or restrain over $1.2 billion of that.

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