Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Briefly Slides to $76,300 as Binance Confirms Hack Estimated at $6.3 Billion
Bitcoin traded in the $76,300 range on Thursday as Binance confirmed a security breach that the exchange estimates at $6.3 billion in total impact. The figure would place the incident among the largest cryptocurrency thefts on record.
Earlier in the session, bitcoin reached a 24-hour high of $81,890 before the selloff, as millions in leveraged long positions were liquidated.
In a post on X, the exchange said its initial investigation suggests the incident may involve a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop. The attacker reportedly gained access to a service container and submitted unauthorized withdrawal transactions. The exchange said it has found no evidence of a wallet private key leak.
Source: Bitcoin Magazine
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