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  • Six Billion in Twenty Minutes: The long history of stealing money that does not exist

    Following stolen cryptocurrency from the Binance Heist to historical lessons.

    Sources
    1. Chainalysis — Binance hack: tracing the $6.4 billion theft to North Korea (30 Oct 2026)
    2. PBS NewsHour / AP — FBI says North Korea was behind $6.3 billion Binance heist
    3. BleepingComputer — Binance links $6.3 billion crypto theft to compromised DevOps laptop
    4. Wikipedia — 2026 Binance hack (timeline compiled from CNBC, BBC, The Guardian)
    5. Wikipedia — 2026 Binance hack, citing The Guardian's interview with Elliptic's chief scientist ("almost certainly the single largest-known theft of any kind")
    6. Engadget — Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès cleared of embezzlement (2019)
    7. Cointelegraph — Japanese court finds ex-Mt. Gox CEO guilty of record tampering
    8. Cointelegraph — Mt. Gox begins repayments in bitcoin and bitcoin cash (July 2024)
    9. TRM Labs — Ilya Lichtenstein sentenced for role in Bitfinex hack
    10. The Block — Bitfinex hacker sentenced to five years
    11. The Block — The DAO hack, ten years on
    12. Fortune — Coincheck NEM hack (2018)
    13. CNN Money — Kaspersky: hackers stole up to $1 billion from banks (2015)
    14. Help Net Security — Carbanak / Cobalt gang leader arrested (Europol, 2018)
    15. Wikipedia — Bangladesh Bank robbery
    16. US Department of Justice — North Korean regime-backed programmer charged (2018)
    17. Mandiant / Google Cloud — APT38: details on a new North Korean regime-backed threat group
    18. Cointelegraph — Poly Network hacker returns nearly all funds
    19. Engadget — Poly Network: funds returned except $33M frozen by Tether
    20. The Register — Wormhole theft (2022)
    21. Malwarebytes — Fake job offer leads to $600 million theft (Ronin)
    22. The Block — How a fake job offer took down the world's most popular crypto game
    23. BleepingComputer — FBI links largest crypto hack ever to North Korean hackers (Ronin)
    24. Harmony — Horizon bridge hack statement
    25. The Record — FBI: North Korean hacking group Lazarus behind $100 million Harmony heist
    26. BleepingComputer — FBI links North Korean hackers to $308 million crypto heist (DMM Bitcoin, 24 Dec 2024)
    27. CoinDesk — WazirX sees $230M in suspicious withdrawals
    28. TechCrunch — Bybit says it was hacked and lost around $1.4 billion
    29. BleepingComputer — Lazarus hacked Bybit via a breached Safe{Wallet} developer machine
    30. FBI / IC3 — PSA I-022625-PSA: North Korea responsible for $1.5 billion Bybit hack
    31. The Record — Drift confirms $280 million stolen
    32. The Block — KelpDAO $293 million hack, LayerZero blames Lazarus
    33. CoinDesk — UN report: North Korean hackers stole $3B since 2017
    34. NK News — Cybercrime funds half of North Korea's missile program, US official says
    35. Al Jazeera — Russia blocks renewal of UN panel monitoring North Korea sanctions
    36. WorldECR — North Korea stole $2.84B in crypto over 21 months, monitoring team reports
    37. Security Boulevard — North Korean hackers stole $1.34 billion in crypto in 2024 (Chainalysis)
    38. Fortune — North Korea stole a record amount of crypto in 2025
    39. CISA / FBI / Treasury — AA22-108A: TraderTraitor
    40. US Treasury — Sinbad.io sanctioned (mentions Blender.io, May 2022)
    41. US Treasury — Tornado Cash sanctioned (Aug 2022)
    42. Jones Day — Fifth Circuit reverses Tornado Cash sanctions ruling
    43. Security Affairs — US Treasury removed sanctions on Tornado Cash
    44. Axios — Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev sentenced
    45. Decrypt — Jury finds Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm guilty of money transmitting charge
    46. The Defiant — Lazarus launders Bybit ETH via THORChain
    47. Elliptic — Bybit exploit six months on: novel laundering tactics (citing zeroShadow)
    48. Cointelegraph — OFAC sanctions OTC traders who converted crypto for Lazarus (2023)
    49. Cointelegraph — Bybit can trace funds through a US court; its June 2026 filing: 90.2% untraceable (8 Aug 2026)
    50. Decrypt — North Korean hackers pocket over $100M in Atomic Wallet heist (Elliptic)
    51. CoinDesk — Atomic Wallet hackers move stolen funds via OFAC-sanctioned exchange Garantex
    52. FBI / IC3 — PSA I-012325-PSA: North Korean IT workers conducting data extortion
    53. The Record — BTC-e operator Alexander Vinnik pleads guilty to money laundering
    54. BleepingComputer — US indicts North Korean hackers for stealing $1.3 billion (2021; United States v. Jon Chang Hyok et al., C.D. Cal. 2:20-cr-00614)
    55. FBI — Cyber's Most Wanted: Park Jin Hyok (also Jon Chang Hyok, Kim Il)
    56. TechCrunch — US Treasury sanctions North Korean hackers over Sony hack and WannaCry attack (2018)
    57. Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong — Sanctions on cyber criminals funding North Korean weapons of mass destruction (6 Nov 2025)
    58. US Treasury — Treasury sanctions individuals laundering cryptocurrency for Lazarus Group (Mar 2020)
    59. Folio Defence — our own lookups, 1-2 November 2026: the delegation transaction and the operator's funding on Blockscout; the 19 FBI-listed Bitcoin addresses on mempool.space (none spent); the Tron wallets and Tether's blacklist on TronGrid; the XRP receiver on the XRP Ledger (sent out on 2 November); 0x1510's THORChain-router inflows and its payments to five FBI-listed addresses; Chainflip deposits checked for nine of the theft's role wallets (none found, some Bitcoin transactions unreadable); THORChain: three wallets read with no swaps, then the public index refused further lookups for 24 hours; US federal court records (CourtListener) screened for namesakes.
    60. TRM Labs — North Korea steals $6.36 billion from Binance in the largest hack in history (29 Oct 2026; data as of 30 Oct, 00:30 UTC)
    61. Elliptic — The largest theft in history: North Korea behind the $6.4 billion Binance hack (updated 1 Nov 2026)
    62. CryptoSlate — ZachXBT and MistTrack findings (30 Oct 2026)
    63. Elliptic — The Binance hack is laundering on autopilot (31 Oct 2026)
    64. The Block — LayerZero apologises for its Kelp DAO response, admits fault in its single-verifier setup
      65. Music and sound

      Music and sound effects: Folio Defence originals, Epidemic Sounds.

      https://www.foliodefence.com/podcast/six-billion-in-twenty-minutes/

      20 min

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