That is the confirmed core. In a statement carried by TechCrunch and echoed by The Mirror, the exchange said it was “aware of reports of a potential security issue” and was actively investigating. It also said user funds were safe and that it had not confirmed any impact to them.
Everything beyond that sits on a shakier ladder of estimates, screenshots and on-chain interpretation. The Mirror reported claims that roughly $2.8 billion had been withdrawn from Binance accounts, including more than $2 billion in Ethereum and tokens sent to a newly created address. TechCrunch, citing crypto watchers, said at least $2 billion appeared to have been drained from Binance hot wallets, with some estimates running much higher. Binance did not confirm those figures.
That distinction matters. Crypto crises have a way of producing giant numbers before they produce settled facts. Tokens can be traced moving quickly; proving what was stolen, what was frozen and what remains recoverable takes longer.
Changpeng Zhao, Binance’s co-founder and largest shareholder, said in public posts that the company had likely been hacked and that users would be “fully covered,” according to TechCrunch and The Mirror. The Mirror also reported that he said losses could exceed $1 billion. Reassurance is useful in a run-prone business; it is not the same thing as an accounting.
Some of the most tangible figures so far concern assets that were stopped. TechCrunch reported that Circle froze about $800 million tied to the incident and that Tether froze about $1.56 billion. The Mirror put the combined total at nearly $2 billion. Freezing stablecoins does not answer what happened inside Binance, but it does show how quickly supposedly borderless crypto can run back into systems with gatekeepers.
Binance also urged users not to trust unofficial links, messages or requests for account information, which is standard advice and especially relevant when confusion is doing part of the attacker’s work.
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