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Elon Musk Suggests AI Agents Could Steal Crypto
Elon Musk suggested that AI agents could potentially use stolen crypto to fund themselves after the Binance hack. Reports indicate that wallets on Ethereum, Bitcoin, and TRON had seen outflows of $5.7 billion, including $1.45 billion in Bitcoin and $875 million in Ether. The incident is attributed to a compromised laptop belonging to a DevOps engineer, which allowed the attacker to submit unauthorized withdrawals. Binance has not independently confirmed the attribution to North Korea's TraderTraitor group, but TRM Labs has high confidence in this attribution based on previous operations.