North Korea is the prime suspect in Binance's $6.3 billion heist. Will the FBI or Treasury publicly blame Pyongyang by Nov 6?
75% of users predicted YES — the community got this one right. 8 predictions cast.
The FBI publicly attributed the theft of more than $6 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance to North Korea in a statement issued around Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2026, naming TraderTraitor, a hacking group affiliated with Pyongyang, according to Al Jazeera and Graham Media Group local-news wire coverage. The bureau said the funds were stolen around Oct. 29 and that it had observed the hackers laundering the proceeds by converting them into ether, urging the private sector to block transactions linked to the group's wallet addresses.
The FBI did not release technical evidence to support the attribution in its public statement, and President Trump, asked about the hack, told reporters "we don't know if it's North Korea," a notable gap between the bureau's formal attribution and the president's own comments. Binance said it had set aside more than $6.3 billion in company funds to cover customer losses and had already replaced roughly 90% of the stolen amount.
The attribution follows a long pattern of U.S. officials linking North Korean state hackers to major cryptocurrency thefts, including the 2022 Ronin Bridge hack, as Pyongyang has used stolen crypto to help fund its weapons programs.
The Predict Six community correctly called this one: 75% of forecasters expected U.S. officials to publicly blame North Korea, and the FBI did.