Binance heist is stark example of AI governance gaps and basic security failures

A chain of avoidable technical and human security failures enabled the largest crypto heist on record, the theft of approximately $6.34 billion from Binance. The improper monitoring and access scoping of an internal AI tool played a major role in helping the hackers, and should serve as a warning for enterprise CISOs to take AI governance seriously. Binance’s initial findings report, published Nov. 3, describes a mon…

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