Binance suspends all trading after record hack
The exchange froze funds and halted trading while it investigated the theft.
- Service
- Binance
- Date
- 29 October 2026
- Cause
- Cyberattack
- Duration
- Not stated or multi-day
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Brussels Times ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Binance suspends all trading after record hack”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 29 Oct 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-10-29-binance-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: Brussels Times, https://www.brusselstimes.com/2384541/crypto-exchange-binance-loses-e5-4-billion-in-hack.
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