Kim Jong-un, crypto bros and a $6.3bn heist – podcast
The Guardian’s banking correspondent, Kayleena Makortoff, tells Helen Pidd how Binance was hacked and how the news has shaken the crypto world.
Key points
- The journalist Jean H Lee explains why one of the poorest and most isolated countries in the world is believed to have pulled off the audacious heist, and….
- But the hack exposed just how vulnerable crypto can be.
- The cryptocurrency revolution promised to take power from the fusty old central banks and put it in the hands of the people.
Kalyeena Makortoff and Jean H Lee report It was 8pm last Thursday when the panic alarms went off across the crypto world.
North Korea is said to be behind the theft from the crypto exchange Binance.
Additional details
- Almost immediately, the finger of blame was pointed squarely in one direction: North Korea.
- How did they pull it off and what will they do with the money?
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