"It was not a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident," Cryptocurrency giant Binance said North Korean hackers used a months-long attack involving multiple company employees to stage its headline-grabbing theft of $6.3 billion last week. The company released a post-mortem on Tuesday morning, outlining a campaign that dates back to June and involved the compromise of multiple employee devices. Binance CEO Richard Teng called it a “months-long campaign” that wasn’t the result of “one mistake or one breach.”
“Our current investigation indicates that this was a sophisticated, multi-stage campaign. It was not a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident,” Binance said.
