Crypto ‘scammers on overdrive’ as Binance customers pull billions from accounts after $6.3bn hack – business live

The Guardian Business Monday 02 November 2026, 07:36 UTC By Lauren Almeida 1 min read

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Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsAnd in case you missed it: rival trading platform Chainalysis said on Friday it had also been the target of a cyber attack, although it found no evidence of unauthorised access to “investigation content, authentication credentials, or session tokens.”It said in a statement:Our team is working with leading cybersecurity experts to investigate this activity and harden our systems. We’ve proactively notified all of our customers and will...

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

And in case you missed it: rival trading platform Chainalysis said on Friday it had also been the target of a cyber attack, although it found no evidence of unauthorised access to “investigation content, authentication credentials, or session tokens.”

It said in a statement:

Our team is working with leading cybersecurity experts to investigate this activity and harden our systems. We’ve proactively notified all of our customers and will keep them updated as our work progresses. This security incident is not related to the recent crypto theft at Binance.

Scammers on over drive now. Be careful.

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