The US Department of Justice just got court authorization to seize or restrain $1.2 billion linked to a massive North Korea-linked hack on crypto giant Binance.
The court has cleared $1.2 billion for official seizure so far.
The hackers, called TraderTraitor, pulled off the heist back in October and are still trying to move the money around.
Fake-interview $6.3B Binance theft, FaceStealer $400 million+
This was the biggest crypto theft ever: $6.3 billion stolen using a fake job interview to trick an engineer and sneak malware into Binance's systems.
The hackers tried hiding their tracks by moving funds through lots of digital wallets, but US agencies like the FBI jumped in fast to block their moves.
On top of that, authorities also took down another North Korean scam called FaceStealer, which had stolen more than $400 million using sneaky social engineering tricks.