Binance discovered that 7,000 bitcoins were stolen from a single wallet, amounting to roughly 2% of the company’s total bitcoin holdings
The theft offers another example of the vulnerability facing cryptocurrencies and the venues where investors trade them. Yet the price of bitcoin and other digital currencies barely budged after the robbery was disclosed Wednesday morning in Asia.
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