A record-setting cyberattack targeting the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange rocked the digital assets industry Friday, delivering another blow to a sector already struggling to achieve mainstream adoption.
The exchange, Binance, announced late Thursday that more than $6 billion appeared to have moved through wallets connected to a security breach, the highest dollar amount ever associated with a crypto cyber attack. Around $3 billion of that had potentially been located and frozen across several exchanges, though it was not immediately clear if those funds were recoverable.
It was not immediately clear whether hackers were able to access individual customer accounts or holdings. Binance co-CEO Richard Teng released a video…







