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How crypto hacking funds isolated North Korea’s nuclear programme
Cryptocurrency theft is estimated to generate half of the country’s foreign currency income North Korea plays by its own rules. The isolated, secretive and autocratic country is largely cut off from the world’s economic system – but when it comes to generating foreign earnings it relies on some of t
What the coverage shows
Across the coverage, outlets converge on Binance as the target, the figure of about $6.3 billion, and the idea that this could be the largest crypto hack on record. Reuters, BBC News, CNBC, Bloomberg Technology, NPR and CBS News all foreground North Korea as the likely culprit or attribution, while TechCrunch, BleepingComputer, Axios and The Guardian US emphasize account-freezing, withdrawals, or loss coverage. Only BleepingComputer and CNBC explicitly highlight the amount frozen, and Tom's Hardware is the outlier on the $5.6 billion estimate.
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