Was North Korea behind the biggest crypto heist in history?
When the world’s largest cryptocurrency heist takes place, it doesn’t take long for the finger to be pointed at one particular country. North Korea is known as the hermit kingdom. It is ruled by a regime that isolates its people from the internet out of fear of outside information infiltrating its borders. But when it comes to cyberwarfare, not least cryptocurrency thefts, Pyongyang is anything but a hermit. With hackers stealing $6.3 billion overnight from the digital wallets of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, it is no surprise that North Korea is the likely perpetrator. After all, the Kim regime will do everything and anything to get money, both for itself and its ever-expanding nuclear weapons program. The $6.
