12 North Korea-Linked Crypto Theft Cases Total About $9.74B, Binance Accounts for 65%

Nov. 3: According to Gelonghui, citing materials including TRM Labs, FBI notices and exchange announcements, 12 crypto theft incidents involving or suspected of involving North Korea-backed hackers between 2022 and 2026 totaled about $9.74 billion. Binance had the largest amount stolen, roughly $6.3 billion, or 65% of the total for the listed cases.
Other major cases include: Bybit $1.5 billion, Ronin/Axie Infinity $620 million, Bitget $388 million, DMM Bitcoin $308 million, WazirX $235 million. In addition, Harmony Horizon and Atomic Wallet each had $100 million stolen.
On attribution, Binance, Bybit and DMM Bitcoin were directly named by the U.S. government as the work of TraderTraitor, while most of the other eight are attributed to the Lazarus umbrella. The above amounts are converted based on valuations at the time of each incident; only selected major cases are included and the figures are not a tally of losses across all related cases.