More than $1 billion hacked from banks. Binance was the warning.

On 29 October 2026, North Korean hackers moved $6.36 billion out of Binance, the world's biggest crypto exchange. Most of it was gone in about 20 minutes.

Read that again.

The way in started with 1 engineer's hacked laptop. Binance refilled the losses itself. Replenished, not recovered.

Banks have been here before. In 2016, hackers sent $951 million in fake payment orders from Bangladesh Bank's account at the New York Fed. Most were stopped. $81 million vanished.

The Carbanak gang quietly took up to $1 billion from about 100 banks over 2 years.

In November 2026, it happened again. Hackers took about $113 million from France's Crédit Mutuel Arkéa through the bank's own account, then turned it into crypto. Customer money was safe. The bank was not.

You do not need to break the vault when you can borrow the keys.

Days after Binance, the Fed called the banks: check your doors.

AI hacks at machine speed. Banks patch at committee speed.

Their answer to me never changes: Igor, we've been doing it like this for 20 years. That is the problem.

Quantum comes later. AI is already inside.

My forecast: by 2028, counted from January 2026, hackers steal over $1 billion from banks worldwide. Arkéa already put $113 million on the meter.

The next bank robber does not need a gun. Just access.

I fear people, not technology.