DOJ Wins Court Approval to Seize $1.2 Billion From North Korea’s $6 Billion Binance Heist, but Less Than Half the Loot Is Frozen and No One Knows When It Comes Back

The Justice Department has court approval to seize or restrain more than $1.2 billion stolen from Binance by North Korea’s TraderTraitor hackers, but only about $2.7 billion of the $6 billion haul is frozen, repayment timing is open, and a deepfake video-call scheme called FaceStealer has taken another $400 million.

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