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North Korea Denies Role in Binance Hack
Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, denied allegations that Pyongyang was behind the $6.3 billion hack of cryptocurrency exchange Binance. The FBI publicly attributed the October 29 theft to North Korean hacking activity known as TraderTraitor, but Pyongyang has not accepted the attribution. The FBI warned of potential use of decentralised finance (DeFi) platforms to hide the stolen cryptocurrency, which includes Ethereum (ETH).