Hack Brief: Hackers Stole $40 Million from Binance Cryptocurrency Exchange
May 09, 2019•5 min
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Episode description
Binance is one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges. As of Tuesday, it’s now also the scene of a major cryptocurrency theft. In what the company calls a “large scale security breach,” hackers stole not only 7,000 bitcoin—equivalent to over $40 million—but also some user two-factor authentication codes and API tokens.
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