PANews November 2 news: Binance co-CEO Yi He posted on X platform that the claim about "a Binance engineer dating a North Korean spy leading to the theft" is "more dramatic, but not true," and that ZachXBT did not say that.
Previously, the X account AlphaWire posted that there were unverified allegations that a Binance DevOps engineer had a romantic relationship with a North Korean agent and left a laptop unattended on the day of the attack. The claims were attributed online to on-chain detective ZachXBT, but his original statement has not been independently verified. The post has received over 220,000 views.