Coverage citing Reuters says Binance has replenished approximately $6 billion of the $6.3 billion lost in the hack using company money and emergency and insurance funds. This means purchasing replacement assets for customers, not recovering the money from attackers; obtaining the remaining illiquid tokens will take longer. Separate reporting describes stolen bitcoin being split among wallets and an FBI attribution to North Korea, but the FBI original was inaccessible during this review. The new development is the company’s reported replenishment progress, rather than the previously reported theft estimate or attack speed. Neither full recovery nor completion of the investigation is established.
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Binance says it has replenished $6 billion of roughly $6.3 billion stolen
Replacement purchases using company funds are distinct from freezing or recovering stolen assets, with a remainder still outstanding.