ISS Global / Investigation Report
Binance security incident
Testing the $6.3 billion claim, tracing the evidence and separating impact from recoverable value
- Issued
- Location
- Global / online systems; Binance-controlled wallets and transaction-authorisation infrastructure
- Incident date
- 29 October 2026, about 20:05 UTC; assessment cut-off: 30 October, 07:15 UTC
- Language
- English
- Document
- Initial assessment · 13 pages · PDF · 0.6 MB
An investigation of the reported Binance security incident and unauthorised multi-chain outflows. It examines the provisional impact and frozen-asset estimates, the company’s initial access-and-authorisation account, containment measures and attribution claims, distinguishing gross movement from final loss and frozen assets from recovered value.
Original report cover · Open PDF ↗Scope & reporting context
Issued 30 October 2026, reviewing 29–30 October with a cut-off of 07:15 UTC on 30 October. Includes a claim audit, event chronology, financial ledger, technical pathway, response and containment assessment, attribution analysis and nine numbered sources. Company and private-sector estimates remain attributed and provisional. No technical post-mortem or public law-enforcement attribution was located within the reviewed record; no defensible physical incident location is established.
The complete PDF contains the report’s source register, assessments and limitations. Read those alongside any individual finding.