The US$6.3 billion Binance hack is the biggest heist ever – it should be a wake up call for cryptocurrency users

By Iwa Salami, Professor of Law, University of East London

The cyberattack on crypto-asset exchange Binance is potentially the largest theft of its kind on record. Binance has estimated the assets stolen at an eye-watering US$6.3 billion (£4.7 billion).

On October 29, 2026, analytics firms reported that large amounts of crypto-assets had been moved from wallets used by the exchange across multiple blockchain networks – a digital system for recording transactions that is run collectively…

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