Arkham: Binance was hacked for 6.01 billion USD, 2.8 billion has been frozen
On-chain intelligence platform Arkham stated that the hacker marked by them transferred $6.01 billion from Binance's hot wallet across nine chains between 20:10 and 23:05 (UTC) on October 29. The issuer has frozen $2.8 billion of this amount, while approximately $2.9 billion in ETH, BTC, TRX, SOL, and other tokens remains transferable. Arkham also cited Binance's statement that the platform is aware of reports related to potential security issues, user funds are safe, and withdrawals have been suspended; Binance co-founder CZ indicated that the situation appears to be an attack on Binance.Arkham reported that approximately $4.9 billion was transferred within 15 minutes. At 20:10:18 (UTC), 965,455 SOL were transferred on Solana, amounting to about $95.4 million; at 20:20:06, 11 transactions within a Bitcoin block transferred 18,270.2 BTC, approximately $1.467 billion; at 20:24:23, a single Ethereum transaction transferred 64 tokens from a Binance address, totaling about $2.532 billion, including 167,464 ETH (approximately $387.8 million) and 1.62 billion USDT.By chain statistics, Ethereum accounted for approximately $3.739 billion, with USDT around $1.875 billion, USDC about $823 million, and 197,540 ETH approximately $457 million; Bitcoin was 18,270.2 BTC, about $1.467 billion; TRON was approximately $628 million; Solana was 970,522 SOL, about $95.9 million; Arbitrum, Avalanche, Polygon, Optimism, and Base combined accounted for about $7.77 million. The transferable portion includes 495,724 ETH (approximately $1.09 billion) across 10 addresses, as well as 18,270.2 BTC (approximately $1.41 billion) that has not moved since 20:48, distributed across 19 addresses.