The Binance theft started as a coding assignment. I’ve been sent the same kind of repo all year. All were exploits.

Binance said this week that the October 29 theft, about $6.3 billion, began months earlier with a fake job. In June a wallet engineer installed a tampered coding tool. Binance caught it, replaced the machine, and rotated credentials. The attacker already knew the rest of the wallet team. In Septemb…