A chain of events that led to a record-breaking $6.3 billion mega-hack began with a dodgy download, so says the company that was hacked, Binance.
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange says that the hack was not a "single isolated breach or simple phishing incident"; multiple steps were required to break through its security measures. It all began when a Wallet DevOps engineer (named Engineer A) downloaded a tampered Homebrew installation that was suggested to them by an unnamed search engine.
