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Hackers steal more than $40m of bitcoin from crypto exchange

Price of bitcoin and other digital currencies barely budged after the robbery was disclosed

Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, said hackers stole more than $40m worth of bitcoin from its platform in what it called a “large scale security breach.”

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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