A post by @WuBlockchain on X.
CZ: Companies Get Complacent Over Time, Many Lessons Learned From the Hack
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Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said on November 3, 2026, that companies tend to grow complacent over time, reflecting on the exchange's major hack in an interview with the Talking Tokens Podcast. He said Binance learned many lessons from the breach and that complacency, rather than a single technical failure, is the core risk as organizations scale. The comments matter because they come from the founder of the world's largest crypto exchange, framing security lapses as an organizational discipline problem across the industry. Zhao did not disclose new figures on the hack's cost or customer losses in the quoted remarks. What to watch next is whether Binance and peer exchanges translate the lesson into visible changes in custody, reserves disclosure and incident reporting.
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