A Binance engineer thought he was interviewing for a job. Then the hackers pounced

North Korean hackers pulled off the biggest cyber heist ever by duping a Binance engineer into thinking he was being recruited for a job, the crypto exchange says.

<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/4549x3034+0+0/resize/4549x3034!/quality/85/format/webp/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fe7%2F6a%2Ff8406921473a86a43e0037f3e7f7%2Fgettyimages-2302659435.jpg' alt='Hackers, widely believed to be from North Korea, duped a Binance engineer into downloading malicious software that allowed them to pull off a $6.3 billion cyber heist of the crypto exchange.'/><p>North Korean hackers pulled off the biggest cyber heist ever by duping a Binance engineer into thinking he was being recruited for a job, the crypto exchange says.</p><p>(Image credit: Dan Kitwood)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=nx-s1-6027799' />