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FBI blames North Korea for record $6.3bn crypto heist from Binance
Crypto firm Binance says it has covered 90 percent of losses from the multibillion-dollar hack.
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The FBI has linked North Korea to the theft of a record $6.3bn in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
Malicious actors from North Korea were observed laundering the stolen assets by converting them primarily into the cryptocurrency Ethereum, the FBI said in a statement on Saturday.
The US agency blamed the operation specifically on a group called TraderTraitor, the same group blamed for a $1.5bn theft from the Bybit platform in February last year.
The remaining 10 percent consists of less liquid tokens, meaning they may take longer to buy, it added.