
币安高管正争分夺秒填补数十亿美元亏损,这是加密货币历史上最大规模的盗窃案,损失远超该交易所为此类事件预留的资金。
Binance executives are racing to cover billions in losses from the biggest crypto heist in history, a breach that blew past everything the exchange had set aside to cover such an incident.
币安表示,黑客通过入侵一名币安工程师的笔记本电脑等手段,从交易所的数字钱包窃取了 63 亿美元。稳定币发行商泰达币和 Circle 以及其他加密货币公司设法冻结了其中约 30 亿美元,剩余约 33 亿美元仍掌握在黑客手中。
The hackers plundered $6.3 billion from the exchange’s digital wallets by breaking into a Binance engineer’s laptop, among other breaches, Binance said. Stablecoin issuers Tether and Circle, along with other crypto firms, managed to freeze about $3 billion of that sum, leaving roughly $3.3 billion under the hackers’ control.
币安设有名为“用户安全资产基金”(SAFU)的应急储备,专门用于应对此类网络事件。区块链数据显示,截至周四,SAFU 持有 12.3 亿美元的比特币。
Binance has an emergency reserve called the Secure Asset Fund for Users, or SAFU, set up for cyber incidents like this. As of Thursday, the SAFU held $1.23 billion in bitcoin, blockchain data shows.
但这起被网络安全研究人员归咎于朝鲜“TraderTraitor”黑客组织的攻击,震动了整个加密货币市场,导致比特币价格下跌。这意味着应急基金的价值已缩水 1 亿美元。
But the hack, attributed by cybersecurity researchers to North Korea’s TraderTraitor hacking group, has rattled the overall crypto market, knocking bitcoin’s price. This means the emergency fund is already $100 million lower.
币安表示,将从公司其他储备金中弥补差额。“币安将用 SAFU 基金和公司资金覆盖所有损失,”联席首席执行官 Richard Teng 周五在……上表示。这起攻击——研究人员称其规模远超同类过往事件——给币安和更广泛的加密货币行业抹了黑。它在社交媒体和加密货币圈引发了广泛讨论,焦点在于币安能否覆盖损失以及如何让行业更安全——包括币安创始人赵长鹏与 SpaceX 首席执行官埃隆·马斯克的一场网上对峙。
Binance says it will fund the difference from its other company reserves. “Binance will cover all losses from the SAFU fund and company funds,” co-Chief Executive Richard Teng said Friday on The hack—which the researchers say dwarfed any previous incident of its kind—marks a black eye for Binance and the broader crypto industry. It led to a widespread discussion on social media and in crypto circles about whether Binance could cover the losses and how to make the industry safer—including an online confrontation between Binance founder Changpeng Zhao and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
穆迪评级副总裁克里斯蒂亚诺·文特里切利表示,此次黑客攻击“凸显了大型中心化中介机构固有的风险集中度”。“更强有力的机构控制可以降低部分脆弱性,但托管资产的规模可能会放大成功入侵造成的影响。”币安在其团队进行安全检查期间阻止客户提取资金,周五表示提币服务应在两天内恢复。该交易所称其实际总部设在阿拉伯联合酋长国,并表示不接受美国客户。其姊妹交易所币安美国(Binance.US)在美国运营,且与币安分离,称未受此次黑客攻击影响。
The hack “illustrates the risk concentration inherent in large, centralized intermediaries,” Cristiano Ventricelli, a vice president at Moody’s Ratings, said. “Stronger institutional controls can reduce some vulnerabilities, but the scale of assets under custody can amplify the impact of a successful breach.”Binance blocked customers from withdrawing funds while its team conducted security checks, saying Friday that withdrawal services should resume in two days. The exchange, which has a de facto base in the United Arab Emirates, says it doesn’t accept U.S. customers. Its sister exchange, Binance.US, which operates in the U.S. and is separate from Binance, said it wasn’t affected by the hack.
币安发言人表示,交易所已预留超过63亿美元公司资金,包括SAFU基金金额,以覆盖用户受影响的资产。发言人称,其中50亿美元以黑客窃取的相同加密货币形式持有。公司表示正自行垫付这笔资金,并将在30亿美元被冻结资金解冻后向自身偿还。
A Binance spokesman said the exchange has already reserved over $6.3 billion of company funds, including the SAFU amount, to cover users’ affected assets. Of this sum, $5 billion is held in the same cryptocurrencies that hackers stole, the spokesman said. The company said it is fronting the money itself and will pay itself back with the $3 billion in frozen funds once it is released.
发言人称,币安正通过市场渠道购买剩余13亿美元的加密货币,并补充称这一步骤可能需要更长时间。
Binance is purchasing the remaining $1.3 billion of cryptocurrency through market channels, the spokesman said, adding this step could take longer.
币安在巨大的公司控制数字钱包(即热钱包)中持有用户的加密货币,这些钱包作为账本系统运作,记录每位客户在其平台上持有的代币。币安表示,一旦其用自有储备补充热钱包,用户的加密货币持仓将保持不变。“我们将度过难关,”发言人说。
Binance holds its users’ cryptocurrency on giant company-controlled digital wallets, known as hot wallets, which function as a ledger system recording which tokens are held by each customer on its platform. Once Binance replenishes its hot wallets with its own reserves, users’ crypto holdings will be unchanged, Binance said. “We will weather this storm,” the spokesman said.
尽管损失严重,但与币安资产负债表的整体规模相比仍属较小。区块链分析公司Nansen的数据显示,其数字钱包中总共持有1670亿美元的加密资产。该总额包括用户资金、币安自身公司资产以及SAFU储备金。币安还拥有一些未反映在此类区块链数据中的资产。
The loss, though severe, is small compared with the overall size of Binance’s balance sheet. A total of $167 billion in crypto assets are held across its digital wallets, according to Nansen, a blockchain analytics firm. That sum includes user funds as well as Binance’s own company assets and the SAFU reserve. Binance also owns some assets that aren’t reflected in such blockchain data.
币安创始人兼大股东赵长鹏周五发帖称,“剩余缺口(依然痛苦,但)可控”。同样在周五,马斯克针对另一位X用户发布的已入狱FTX创始人山姆·班克曼-弗里德推文截图,回复了一个苦脸表情符号。班克曼-弗里德的加密货币交易所于2022年倒闭。
Zhao, Binance’s founder and majority owner, posted on Friday that the “remaining gap is (still painful, but) manageable.”Also on Friday, Musk posted a grimacing-face emoji in response to another X user’s post of a screenshot of a tweet by jailed FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, whose crypto exchange collapsed in 2022.
为了凸显其财务实力雄厚,身价超过1000亿美元的赵长鹏回复马斯克称,币安持有的SpaceX股份价值超过10亿美元。币安于2022年投资5亿美元入股X(当时为Twitter),作为马斯克收购该公司的一部分,而该公司今年早些时候被SpaceX收购。赵长鹏是币安最大股东。
Highlighting the strength of his financial position, Zhao, who is worth over $100 billion, replied to Musk that a stake Binance holds in SpaceX is valued at over $1 billion. Binance invested $500 million in X, then Twitter, back in 2022 as part of Musk’s takeover of the company, which was acquired by SpaceX earlier this year. Zhao is Binance’s biggest shareholder.
“Elon,很尊重你,但现在不是恶搞的时候。请停手,”赵长鹏@马斯克发帖道。
“Elon, have a lot of respect for you, but bad time to troll. Please stop,” Zhao posted at Musk.
同样在X上,赵长鹏与其伴侣、币安另一位联席CEO何一讨论了融资策略。
Also on X, Zhao discussed funding strategies with his romantic partner Yi He, who is Binance’s other co-CEO.
与赵长鹏育有三个孩子的何一@赵长鹏发帖称,币安的年收入足以弥补亏损。“我们还不需要出售你所看好的SpaceX股份,”她指着赵长鹏说道。币安去年处理了34万亿美元的交易,并从中收取手续费。
Yi He, with whom Zhao has three children, posted at Zhao that Binance’s annual revenue was sufficient to cover the losses. “We do not yet need to sell the SpaceX shares you are bullish on,” she said, referring to Zhao. Binance last year processed $34 trillion in trades, on which it charges fees.
赵长鹏回复何一称,他并未考虑出售SpaceX股份,而是向马斯克标记这一持仓,“以便他少担心些”。
Zhao responded to Yi that he wasn’t considering selling the SpaceX shares, but was flagging the holding for Musk “so that he can be less worried.”