On October 29, the news hit: In one of the largest thefts in internet history, over $6 billion was stolen from Binance, the biggest crypto exchange in the world.

At Yahoo! Finance, Harsh Notariya reports, “The attacker never stole Binance’s private keys. Instead, they made Binance’s own systems approve the theft.”

He follows the heist in detail and the details are complex.

But this part isn’t complex at all: “The attacker breached a DevOps engineer’s laptop, then used a service container (a packaged program running inside Binance’s systems) to submit fake withdrawal orders.”

Binance is dealing with the fallout but many questions…