{"id":1046464,"date":"2026-11-02T08:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046464"},"modified":"2026-11-03T06:54:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:24:39","slug":"binance-hack-worlds-largest-crypto-exchange-loses-6-bn-in-20-mins-heres-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/02\/binance-hack-worlds-largest-crypto-exchange-loses-6-bn-in-20-mins-heres-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Binance hack: World\u2019s largest crypto exchange loses $6 bn in 20 mins \u2013 Here\u2019s what happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took just 20 minutes for around $6.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency to leave Binance, the world\u2019s largest crypto exchange. The attack began shortly after 8 pm GMT on Thursday, October 29, when the platform\u2019s internet-connected wallets started sending out large amounts of digital assets. <\/p>\n<p>According to blockchain records cited by Reuters, most of the money was moved within those 20 minutes. Binance said late Thursday that around $6.3 billion was affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took just 20 minutes for around $6.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency to leave Binance, the world\u2019s largest crypto exchange. The attack began shortly after 8 pm GMT on Thursday, October 29, when the platform\u2019s internet-connected wallets started sending out large amounts of digital assets. According to blockchain records cited by Reuters, most of the money was moved within those 20 minutes. Binance said late Thursday that around $6.3 billion was affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046495,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046464\/revisions\/1046495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}