Crypto firm Binance finds multiple 'points of breach' in $6.3bn hack thought to be largest ever
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Binance, the world's biggest crypto exchange, has been hit by what's thought to be the biggest hack in history. Cryptocurrency worth $6.3bn (£4.7bn) was stolen, with Binance saying it has now begun recovering some funds. The company's co-CE.
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- —Binance, the world's biggest crypto exchange, has been hit by what's thought to be the biggest hack in history.
- —Cryptocurrency worth $6.3bn (£4.7bn) was stolen, with Binance saying it has now begun recovering some funds.
- —The company's co-CEO Richard Teng says initial investigations point to a "compromised DevOps engineer's laptop" giving hackers access, with a [].
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