North Korea-linked hacking cumulative $12.8 billion... 2026 theft amount $7.4 billion

North Korea-linked hackers have stolen roughly $12.8 billion in crypto assets since 2017, with $7.4 billion of that total taken in 2026 alone, according to TRM Labs. The firm’s October 30 analysis attributed 85% of global crypto hack losses through October 2026 to North Korean attacks, with most of this year’s haul coming from the Binance breach. The FBI on October 31 named North Korea as the party behind the Binance hack, calling the campaign “TraderTraitor.” Binance estimated about $6.34 billion in assets were affected by the incident. The scale of the losses keeps North Korea-linked theft as the dominant force in crypto security, and the next focus is how the Binance incident and attribution affect recovery efforts and exchange security practices.