He Yi Denies Rumor That Binance Engineer's Romance with North Korean Spy Led to Hack

Nov 2: Binance co-CEO He Yi posted on X that the claim "a Binance engineer's romance with a North Korean spy led to the theft" is "more dramatic, but not true," and that ZachXBT never said such a thing.

Previously, the X account AlphaWire posted unverified allegations that a Binance DevOps engineer had a romantic relationship with a North Korean agent and left a laptop unattended on the day of the attack. The claims were attributed online to on-chain sleuth ZachXBT, but his original statement has not been independently verified. The post has received over 220,000 views.