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Hey, @grok, what would happen to crypto if someone hacked this wallet?

THE FULL STORY BEHIND THE BIGGEST CRYPTO HACK EVER Around $6.3 billion stolen from Binance Billions frozen But the attacker had already borrowed nearly $45 million in ETH against stolen USDT Here is how the attack unfolded The preparation began on October 28 with small withdrawals from Tornado Cash That funded transaction fees while obscuring the original funding source The attacker then deployed a sweeper contract and tested it on their own wallets Its job was to transfer assets from a controlled wallet to the attacker Only the attacker’s address could trigger it, preventing competing bots from interfering Then came the critical step: obtaining valid signatures from Binance’s wallets Binance initially pointed to a potentially compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop That access may have allowed unauthorized requests through an internal service container The exchange later disclosed additional breach points It also said it had found no evidence that wallet private keys had leaked A key can remain inside a signing system while an attacker manipulates the requests it approves The blockchain sees a valid signature It cannot inspect Binance’s internal approval process The exact path through those systems still needs to be established On Ethereum, the attacker used EIP-7702 This feature lets a regular wallet authorize execution of smart contract code Binance 14 signed authorizations pointing to the attacker’s sweeper That allowed the malicious code to execute with the wallet’s authority The attacker prepared 50 signed authorizations covering consecutive nonces A nonce is the wallet’s transaction counter Binance 14’s counter kept changing as withdrawals processed The range increased the chance of an authorization matching when submitted These were valid signatures obtained beforehand The attacker still needed access to signing authority Around 20:20 UTC on October 29, the delegation landed Minutes later, one transaction swept 167,464 ETH plus approximately 1.615 billion USDT Dozens of other tokens went with them Roughly $2.53 billion left Binance 14 in that transaction alone Just 24 seconds later, Binance 16 sent another 28,005.6 ETH Other tokens were drained too A linked account was subsequently used to withdraw large USDC balances Meanwhile, withdrawals were happening across other networks The stolen assets included approximately 18,270 BTC plus 233 million XRP Another 970,500 SOL and more than 612 million USDT on Tron were taken Those transfers used ordinary valid signatures The activity across different blockchains points toward a broader compromise of the signing infrastructure Then the attacker kept coming back The Ethereum delegation remained active after the first sweep Newly arriving funds were still exposed Roughly another $200 million in USDT was taken Pausing customer withdrawals did not automatically remove the delegation already installed on Ethereum It was reset shortly after midnight, almost four hours after installation By then, the race against the stablecoin issuers was underway Tether initially reported freezing more than 1.567 billion USDT Circle froze approximately 823 million USDC Other issuers restricted additional tokens Estimates of secured assets grew toward $3 billion Those figures varied by timestamp and methodology Frozen funds still needed a recovery process The attacker was already converting stablecoins into ETH and TRX Speed came at a cost One analyzed batch exchanged approximately 325 million USDT for around 122,300 ETH The attacker paid substantially above the broader market price to complete the conversion quickly Bitquery estimated roughly $119 million was lost against market prices across the rushed swaps But selling was only one route into ETH Between 20:58 and 21:01 UTC, an attacker wallet supplied approximately 60 million USDT to Aave V3 It then borrowed 19,762 WETH, worth roughly $44.6 million at the time WETH is wrapped ETH used by Ethereum applications The sequence was simple: Stolen USDT → Aave collateral → borrowed WETH The USDT provided borrowing power The WETH came from Aave’s available lending liquidity Here is the detail many posts missed Supplying USDT transfers the underlying tokens into Aave’s reserve contracts The supplier receives a claim represented by aTokens Blacklisting the supplier’s personal address does not automatically freeze USDT already inside that reserve The collateral remained in Aave while the attacker controlled the borrowed WETH Tether’s USDT blacklist could not freeze that WETH The debt still existed Aave reported that the position was overcollateralized and subject to normal liquidation Interest continued accruing Because the debt was denominated in ETH, a rising ETH price could push the position toward liquidation Walking away would leave the collateral exposed Aave began emergency market freezes at 21:42 UTC, roughly forty minutes after the borrowing ended The restrictions blocked new supply and borrowing across affected markets They could close further borrowing routes, but could not retrieve WETH already borrowed Meanwhile, the attacker’s ETH balance kept growing Approximately 200,000 ETH was taken directly from Binance wallets Later snapshots counted more than 500,000 ETH after conversions and borrowing The widely shared 197,460 ETH figure described one wallet rather than the entire cluster Some assets were secured through network intervention Arbitrum’s Security Council moved approximately 8,426 ETH and 74.6 million ARB out of the attacker’s reach Recovery options depended on the network as well as the asset On October 31, the FBI attributed the theft to North Korea’s TraderTraitor activity Binance said it had set aside more than $6.34 billion to cover the incident Its October 31 update reported that 90% of affected assets had been replenished That included replacement purchases using company resources and insurance funds Replenished customer backing does not mean that percentage was recovered from the attacker The technical report still needs to explain how the signing permissions were obtained Why were the delegations approved? How did access extend across so many networks? Valid signatures enabled the withdrawals Persistent delegation exposed later deposits Stolen stablecoins then supported an ETH loan before restrictions arrived By the time billions were frozen, part of the money had already changed form

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