Trump-Pardoned Billionaire’s Empire Hit by Record Heist

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Benoit Tessier/Reuters Cybercriminals have pulled off the largest heist in history against the crypto platform co-founded by Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire pardoned by Donald Trump last year. According to reports, hackers have stolen $6.3 billion in assets from Zhao’s Binance. The cryptocurrency giant said it had begun recovering and freezing some of the assets, but more than half remain stolen. Binance said its systems had been breached through the compromised laptop of a DevOps engineer, but subsequently, other breaches had been found. Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs said North…

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Trump-Pardoned Billionaire’s Empire Hit by Record Heist
Benoit Tessier/Reuters Cybercriminals have pulled off the largest heist in history against the crypto platform co-founded by Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire pardoned by Donald Trump last year. According to reports, hackers have stolen $6.3 billion in assets from Zhao’s...