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Top story Binance discloses hackers used fake job interviews and internal AI tool in $6.3 billion breach

Binance's Nov. 3 incident report says North Korea-linked attackers spent months compromising employees and hot-wallet signing infrastructure, the largest exchange breach on record.

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Binance posts $11 billion withdrawals in 46 hours after hack, reports net outflow of about $5.3 billion

CEO Richard Teng said hourly deposits were overtaking withdrawals as the exchange reopened services and drew down about half its SAFU bitcoin reserve.

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Democrats sweep House and Senate, crypto braced for policy shift

The midterm result breaks Republican control of all three branches and dents the crypto PAC Fairshake, with Sherrod Brown reclaiming a Senate seat.

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Bitcoin whipsaws to $75,700 low then rebounds past $78,000 as midterm uncertainty fades

BTC touched a seven-week low under $76K with nearly $300 million in long liquidations before staging a V-shaped recovery toward $78K.

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Bitcoin ETFs lose over $1.1 billion in early November outflows; BlackRock's IBIT sees largest since June

Bitwise attributed the selling to a short-term risk-off mood while saying institutions have largely held their exposure.

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ZachXBT names French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa as suspected victim of $133 million crypto theft

The blockchain sleuth says the bank may have lost funds from exchange accounts, and Crypto.com has blocked related assets; he sees no Lazarus Group link.

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Morgan Stanley among first banks to tokenize US equities and Treasurys via DTCC service

The tokenization follows the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation's launch of its new Tokenization Service on Oct. 28.

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CFTC clears perpetual futures on individual stocks for US exchanges, drawing legal challenge

The regulator frames the move as a regulated alternative to offshore venues, while a Citadel-backed group sued arguing stock perps belong with the SEC.

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CZ calls for crypto security alliance, warns AI is accelerating hacks after Binance breach

In his first interview since the hack, Changpeng Zhao said investigators found no AI laundered the funds but automated tools lower the barrier for attackers.

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Moscow Exchange to list bitcoin, ether and USDT in December under new Russian law

Russia's main bourse, which is US-sanctioned, wants to recapture crypto trading Russians do abroad; Tether's USDT freezes wallets on sanctions lists.

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North Korea denies role in $6.4 billion Binance hack after FBI points to TraderTraitor

Pyongyang rejected Washington's allegation that its TraderTraitor unit carried out the record exchange theft.

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Liquid Network restores full bitcoin backing two months after $320 million exploit

Blockstream provided the funds to re-peg L-BTC one-to-one, though customer payouts still depend on manual wallet refills.

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Mercado Bitcoin pledges to refund users after near $40 million hack

Brazil's largest bitcoin exchange said it will cover all customer losses from the security incident.

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Justin Sun seeks sanctions against Trump-linked World Liberty Financial over undisclosed UAE ties

The Tron founder says World Liberty hid its UAE ownership until months into his lawsuit over $45 million in WLFI tokens and plans to refile in California state court.

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