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Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.
Today in crypto: Mercado Bitcoin halted deposits and withdrawals after a hack reportedly drained more than $46 million from its wallets. Binanceâs emergency Bitcoin reserves fell to roughly half their pre-hack level as the exchange moved to cover $6.3 billion in losses from an attack the FBI attributed to North Korea.
Mercado Bitcoin, one of Brazilâs largest cryptocurrency exchanges, confirmed a security incident on Monday that blockchain analysts estimateddrained more than $46 millionfrom its wallets. Despite the companyâs announcement that it had suspended deposits and withdrawals, addresses associated with the incident continued to receive funds for hours afterward.
Senior security engineer at Certik, Dickson Wu,publishedan initial post-mortem of the incident, saying the attackers âpicked at eight small chains for four hours,â including Base, Optimism and Arbitrum. The attack then moved to the companyâs main hot wallets before transferring tiny amounts of Ether (ETH) from 27,160 different addresses.
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Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.
Today in crypto: Mercado Bitcoin halted deposits and withdrawals after a hack reportedly drained more than $46 million from its wallets. Binanceâs emergency Bitcoin reserves fell to roughly half their pre-hack level as the exchange moved to cover $6.3 billion in losses from an attack the FBI attributed to North Korea.
Mercado Bitcoin, one of Brazilâs largest cryptocurrency exchanges, confirmed a security incident on Monday that blockchain analysts estimateddrained more than $46 millionfrom its wallets. Despite the companyâs announcement that it had suspended deposits and withdrawals, addresses associated with the incident continued to receive funds for hours afterward.
Senior security engineer at Certik, Dickson Wu,publishedan initial post-mortem of the incident, saying the attackers âpicked at eight small chains for four hours,â including Base, Optimism and Arbitrum. The attack then moved to the companyâs main hot wallets before transferring tiny amounts of Ether (ETH) from 27,160 different addresses.
đ [READ FULL HERE](https://cointelegraph.com/news/what-happened-in-crypto-today?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound)
đ° Nguá»n: đȘ CoinTelegraph
$BTC $ETH #BinanceSquare #CryptoNews
