On Thursday 29 October at 20:24 UTC, a single transaction on Ethereum sent 1.6 billion dollars in Tether, 167,464 ether and 62 other tokens from a Binance withdrawal wallet to an attacker. Three and a half minutes earlier, the attacker had taken control of that wallet with a permission carrying the wallet's own signature, according to TRM Labs. Binance estimates the total impact at about $6.3 billion, across ten networks. In 2003, Saddam Hussein's son had $1 billion in cash loaded onto three tru