@benbybit said Bybit is unaffected and operating normally with user funds safe, and offered support to Binance and the crypto community.
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Narrative / Rank 09 / Week of Oct 25 – Oct 31
Bybit says it's unaffected and offers support as the Binance hack dominates exchange talk
Peak / day22tracked accounts
Peak dayFriOct 30 · busiest day in the panel
Rest of X / peak day131distinct accounts outside the panel
Cited claims81 dropped by automated checks
Market—no token attached
Attention
Who was talking, day by day
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What happened
On 30 Oct, @benbybit said Bybit was unaffected and operating normally, with user funds safe, and offered support to Binance and the broader crypto community after the Binance hack. @star_okx said the recent incidents involving Bybit, Bitget and Binance should be a wake-up call and that security should never be a commercial competition. A separate post from @Mayorwhistle10 had claimed Bybit was 'fully hacked as well'.
Why it matters
Bybit's previous $1.5B hack is the benchmark against which every exchange hack is now measured, and its public all-clear here is the clearest signal from a major venue that the Binance incident is not a sector-wide exploit; the next 24-48h will show whether that hold or whether withdrawals start moving.
Observed reaction
Sympathetic/supportive: @benbybit and @star_okx frame exchanges as a united front; @Mayorwhistle10's 'Bybit fully hacked' panic was countered by Bybit's own all-clear.
Spread
Where it started and who carried it
- First seen
- Oct 25, 11:05 UTC by @waghouses
- Accounts
- 36 tracked · 118 elsewhere on X
- Communities
- general ct (9), eth defi (6), perps trading (5), airdrops farming (4)
- Key accounts
- @zapmethod, @marionawfal, @kobeissiletter, @blockhunta, @nicocabrera92
Explainability
Evidence register
@star_okx said the incidents involving Bybit, Bitget, and now Binance should be a wake-up call for every crypto leader and that security should never be a commercial competition.
[1][2]@Mayorwhistle10 claimed Bybit was fully hacked as well.
[1]@_bolivian listed Bybit among exchanges hacked that day with $1 billion.
[1]@_FORAB attributed the Binance attack to North Korea's Lazarus Group and cited Bybit's $1.5 billion theft among its past operations.
[1]@0xQuit said the Feb 2025 $1.5B Bybit hack was the largest crypto heist until the current Binance incident.
[1]@sue_xbt listed Bybit's Feb 2025 hack at $1.4 billion and Binance's at $6.36 billion.
[1]@entropymarkets said the Binance hack is roughly four times the $1.5B Bybit exploit from February 2025.
[1]Angles
- Bybit's public response to Binance compares to its own Feb 2025 recovery — timeline thread using @benbybit's statement and the post-hack price action.
- Bybit as collateral in the OKX/Bitget 'exchanges stand together' narrative — screenshot the @star_okx thread and @benbybit's quote.
- Price-reaction comparison: Bybit (Feb 2025) vs Binance (Oct 2026) including the delta between the post-hack repo and the later drawdown.
Formats in use
- quote tweets
- thread
- screenshots of exchange posts
- list posts
- price charts
Risks
- Do not present @Mayorwhistle10's 'Bybit fully hacked' claim as fact; @benbybit says Bybit is unaffected.
- No financial advice or price predictions around the hack or exchange tokens.
- Flag potentially paid/RT-shilled promo posts that use the hack for unrelated projects (e.g. the scam-list post) as low-signal.
Observed content
Most-engaged posts
RT @KobeissiLetter: BREAKING: The FBI announces that North Korea was behind the $6.3 billion hack of Binance, now the largest hack in history. North Korean hackers were previously accused by the FBI of some of the biggest crypto hacks. This includes the $1.5 billion Bybit attacOpen on X →
RT @_bolivian: LIST OF EXCHANGES HACKED TODAY - BINANCE - 3.5 BILLION - BYBIT - 1 BILLION - BITGET - 1 BILLION - SWYFTX - 10 MILLIONOpen on X →
RT @_FORAB: 知名链上追踪博主 ZachXBT，猜测本次攻击币安，盗取 58.75 亿美元的，为朝鲜人民军总参谋部侦察总局，下属管理的 Lazarus Group。 该组织在该领域盗窃的战果 日本 DMM 交易所，约 3 亿美元 印度 WazirX 交易所，约 2.3 亿美元 华人 Bybit 交易所，约 15 亿美元 链上协议 Kelp DAO，约 2.92 亿美元 华人 Bitget 交易所，约 3.8 亿美元 虽然币安已经追回了其中的一半资产，但是比特币、以太坊等是追回的难题，该黑客最终目标是将资产流入朝鲜，充足朝鲜国家建设。Open on X →
RT @benbybit: Bybit is unaffected and operating normally. User funds remain safe. We stand with @Binance and the broader crypto community during this time and offer our support. Security is a responsibility we all share, and our team is ready to support wherever we can.Open on X →
RT @star_okx: The recent security incidents involving Bybit, Bitget, and now Binance should serve as a wake-up call for every leader in the crypto industry. Security should never be an area of commercial competition. It is a shared responsibility to protect our customers and theOpen on X →
RT @star_okx: The recent security incidents involving Bybit, Bitget, and now Binance should serve as a wake-up call for every leader in the crypto industry. Security should never be an area of commercial competition. It is a shared responsibility to protect our customers and theOpen on X →
RT @Hannibal9972485: All this event serves to PROVE is the government now has a demonstrated capability to freeze billions in crypto assets instantly. stable-coins have centralized kill switches. 🚨 They expect you to believe a DevOps Laptop submit unauthorized withdrawal traOpen on X →
RT @0xQuit: ok so looks like the largest crypto hack of all time, here's where we're at: Stolen: • ~$5.57B across Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Tron: ~$3.51B ETH, ~$1.44B BTC, ~$630M Tron. Frozen: • ~$2.39B in stablecoins: ~$1.567B USDT, ~$823M USDC • Aave froze V3 and V4 on eth mainOpen on X →
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