See more of our coverage in your search results.

Binance’s finance chief Kaiser Ng is leaving the company to pursue another venture, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange said days after hackers stole $6.3 billion from the platform in a record heist.

“Kaiser Ng has decided to pursue a new venture after more than five years at Binance, with a transition plan implemented over the last half year,” Binance Co-Chief Executive Officer Yi He said in a statement on Saturday.

Binance finance chief Kaiser Ng is leaving the company to pursue another venture, days after hackers stole $6.3 billion from the crypto platform. Getty Images

Justin Yek, a longtime finance executive who was most recently vice-president of finance at Airwallex, is taking over as CFO.

The announcement comes just over a week after Binance said hackers stole cryptocurrency in a sophisticated attack that began months earlier with the compromise of several employees’ computers.

Kaiser Ng had been Binance’s CFO for more than five years.…