A Blow for Crypto: Hacker Steals Nearly $600 Million

The crypto ecosystem has already been blown by the slumped in prices.

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The two biggest crypto including BItcoin and Ethereum has lost huge price since its peak value.

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Bitcoin is currently at $19,637, lost almost 72% from the highest price of $69,044.77.

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Ether, the native coin of ethereum has lost 73% from its all-time high

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Apart from this blow, the crypto has now seen a spectacular hack from the largest platform Binance.

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The Binance Coin hack casts a broad shadow on the crypto industry

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According to security companies BlockSec, around 2 million tokens of Binance Coin has been hacked

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Calculated with current value of BNB ($293) gives a figure of 586 million in USD

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