Binance rejects claim linking engineer’s alleged affair to $6.3B hack

A post on X suggested a Binance DevOps engineer left his laptop unattended after meeting a North Korean operative, supposedly enabling the $6.3 billion breach. The claim was falsely attributed to on-chain investigator ZachXBT, who never made such statements.

Yi He, Binance’s chief customer service officer, quickly called the story false and said it had nothing to do with ZachXBT.

What is confirmed so far is the compromised laptop and FBI attribution of the attack to North Korean hackers. CEO Richard Teng noted the intruders bypassed standard checks via EIP-7702 delegation.

No independent evidence has emerged to support the romance angle.

Based on information from cryptonews.net