A $6.3 Billion Hack Started With a Fake Job Interview. Watch Your Inbox, Boston

Binance says the $6.3 billion theft from its wallets began with fake job interviews, where an engineer was persuaded to download malware disguised as a coding assignment, the BBC reported. The company said "this should not have happened."

Think about how many people in this city are job hunting right now. Students, laid-off tech workers, career switchers. A recruiter reaches out, sends a "take-home test," and you open it because you want the job.

My opinion: that's the whole scam. It doesn't need to beat a firewall. It just needs you to be hopeful.

Basic rules: confirm the recruiter through the company's real website, don't run code from someone you've never verified, and if the job seems too perfect, slow down.

What we still don't know: how many other companies got hit the same way and haven't said so.