THE STREET · 2026-11-03 23:35 UTC

Mace AI explains how $6.34 billion Binance hack exploited internal AI agents

Binance confirmed hackers used the exchange's internal AI tool to expand their $6.34 billion attack, with $2.85 billion frozen so far. Mace AI co-founder Walton Comer analyzed the breach, explaining the compromised engineer's laptop had AI tools with more access than the engineer themselves possessed. Comer emphasized that no AI agent should have permissions beyond what its user has, and that proper access controls could have contained the attack to a single machine.

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