# Binance estimates losses from ‘security incident’ at $6.3 billion

https://mins.news/en/item/121896

- TASS, 2026-10-30 05:23 UTC
- Economy
- Original: https://tass.com/economy/2210621

> Binance management put the estimated impact of the security breach at about $6.3 billion and said roughly $3 billion in affected assets had been frozen on-chain with partners. Its initial investigation suggests an attacker may have used a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop to submit unauthorized withdrawals.

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