🗞️ Story file #1313
FBI attributes Binance hack to North korea-linked group
Nov 3, 1 PM ET to Nov 3, 4 PM ET
- 12outlets carried it
- 🫏5 · 5 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 3 hourson the front pages
- 21front pages at once, at its peak
- 2 of 2parts of a saga
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The Guardian 
Axios 
CNBC 
NBC News 
The Washington Post 
BBC Financial Times 
Fortune 
News Nation 
Reuters 
The Epoch Times 
New York Post
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- Nov 3, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: Financial Times
- Nov 3, 4 PM ETpeak: on 21 front pages
📰 Spread
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gaining fast: stories gathering like this went wide 5 times in 10 (43 stories)
📡 Wire copy
1 outlet ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word
NBC News
💬 Quoted
- “a Trite Provocation”1
- “all the cyber crimes”1
- “North Korea hackers”1
- “used malware and bogus job interviews”1
phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did
📌 Linked by aggregators
1 Google News
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✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- New York Post (2 wordings): “Binance says North Korean hackers conducted fake job interviews to hack engineer’s laptop in $6.3B heist” → “N. Korean hackers pulled off $6.3B Binance heist by posing as fake job interviewers to hack engineer’s laptop: probe”
- Reuters (2 wordings): “Binance hackers used fake job interview to compromise computer before $6.3 billion attack” → “Binance hackers used fake job interview in $6.3 billion attack”
📰 Every outlet's headline 12left to right by AllSides rating
- The Guardian🕒 Nov 3, 3 PM ET
Hackers behind $6.3bn Binance heist ‘used malware and bogus job interviews’
- Axios🕒 Nov 3, 3 PM ET
Binance's $6.3 billion hack began with a fake job
- CNBC🕒 Nov 3, 12 PM ET
Binance co-CEO Richard Teng says hackers used fake job interviews, AI tool to steal $6.3 billion in...
- NBC News🕒 Nov 3, 2 PM ET
Binance says hackers used fake job interview to breach computer before $6.3 billion attack
- The Washington Post🕒 Nov 3, 4 PM ET
How malware and a bogus job interview let attackers nab $6.3B from Binance
- BBC🕒 Nov 3, 12 PM ET
Binance says fake job interviews used as part of $6.3bn crypto hack
- Financial Times🕒 Nov 3, 1 PM ET Binance hackers used fake interviews and social media profiles in $6.3bn heist
- Fortune🕒 Nov 3, 11 AM ET
North Korea used LinkedIn, fake job interviews to trick Binance engineer in $6.3 billion hack
- News Nation🕒 Nov 3, 11 AM ET
Binance hackers used fake job interview to get in, steal billions
- Reuters🕒 Nov 3, 11 AM ET
Binance hackers used fake job interview to compromise computer before $6.3 billion attack
- The Epoch Times🕒 Nov 3, 4 PM ET
Binance Reveals That Bogus Job Interview, AI Played Role in $6.3 Billion Crypto Heist
- New York Post🕒 Nov 3, 12 PM ET
Binance says North Korean hackers conducted fake job interviews to hack engineer’s laptop in $6.3B heist
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BinanceNorth KoreaRichard TengLinkedInNorth Korean hackersFake job interviews
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🧵 North Korea Binance hack
FBI blames North Korea for Binance hack
Oct 29, 9 PM ET
FBI attributes Binance hack to North korea-linked group (this story)
Nov 3, 1 PM ET