Ben Weiss, Muyao Shen and Olga Kharif
The biggest crypto hack in history began with a rehearsal.
As trading hummed along on Binance, hackers were quietly running sequences of code on accounts they controlled on the Ethereum blockchain — just a couple of dollars or so at a time. According to cybersecurity analysts, they were testing a program designed to seize control of accounts owned by the world’s largest crypto exchange and smuggle their contents elsewhere.
Just after 4pm (New York…
