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Topic: [2016-08-29] ToI: Bitcoin Exchanges Prone to Hacking: Report (Read 1113 times)

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Bitcoin Exchanges Prone to Hacking: Report

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Bitcoin-exchanges-prone-to-hacking-Report/articleshow/53915411.cms

When hackers penetrated a secure authentication system at a bitcoin exchange called Bitfinex earlier this month, they stole about $70 million worth of the virtual currency.

The cyber theft -- the second largest by an exchange since hackers took roughly $350 million in bitcoins at Tokyo's MtGox exchange in early 2014 -- is hardly a rare occurrence in the emerging world of crypto-currencies.
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