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Coffeezilla's clips help Charlie White explain why the attackers had to move quickly, and why one compromised laptop leaves him incredulous.

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Largest Hack Ever Just Happened

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0:00The topic: about $6.3 billion drained from Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange.
0:30How fast it happened, a comparison with the Bybit theft, and suspicion pointing at North Korea's TraderTraitor.
1:16Roughly $2.5 billion was frozen, so the attackers could not take everything at once.
1:50Coffeezilla's clips explain the split between crypto assets that can be frozen and those that cannot.
3:06Why the attackers had to rush freezable assets into unfreezable ones before authorities could block them.
5:07Binance's update cites a compromised laptop and suspended withdrawals; Charlie expects users to pull funds anyway.

"Largest Hack Ever Just Happened" is Charlie White's eight-minute walk through the theft that drained about $6.3 billion from Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange. It has drawn roughly 840,000 views since it went up yesterday.

He starts with how fast it all happened, setting it against the earlier Bybit theft, and notes where suspicion is landing. "The finger is being pointed at North Korea by a ton of people right now," he says, naming the group TraderTraitor. A large share of the money was frozen before the attackers could take it all, and that is where the video finds its real subject.

For the explanation, Charlie turns to clips of Coffeezilla, the investigator known for digging into crypto schemes, from his Voidzilla channel. Some crypto assets can be frozen by whoever issues them, and some cannot. An on-screen post from Circle's Jeremy Allaire says the company froze USDC tied to the incident. Holding freezable coins, Charlie explains, means racing to swap them for the unfreezable kind before anyone can block them. He compares them to the cheese touch from Diary of a Wimpy Kid: the thing nobody wants left in their hands.

Then he reads Binance's own investigation update about a compromised laptop and suspended withdrawals, and his disbelief is plain. Could access to one person's computer really open the door to losses this size? Either way, he expects users to pull their money out, whatever Binance says about customer deposits.

A joke about whether his Hawk Tuah coin is safe lightens things for a moment. In the comments, many viewers admit they clicked expecting a different hack, on the fan-fiction archive AO3, which commenters say was also breached. Others note they have no crypto to lose.

Charlie's closing verdict is bleak. If state-backed hackers are behind it, he expects little to come back, "because they're like the only ones that can get away with it."

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