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Mercado Bitcoin losses top $46M as funds keep moving after hack
Brazil's Mercado Bitcoin paused deposits and withdrawals after a breach drained over $46 million, with transfers continuing hours later.
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Trade.xyz restores GitBook docs but warns users off documentation links
The Hyperliquid perps platform says unauthorized activity hit its GitBook pages and that an investigation is ongoing.
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ZachXBT links 27,553 ETH 'whale' buy to suspected $106 million hack
The overnight ether purchase looked like bullish whale activity, but ZachXBT ties the wallet to a suspected $106 million theft from an EU entity.
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Trezor raises passphrase limit to 128 characters after Coldcard attacks
The hardware wallet maker says longer passphrases give users another safeguard when recovery phrases are exposed.
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Mercado Bitcoin freezes deposits and withdrawals after security incident
Brazilian exchange Mercado Bitcoin says clients lost nothing, Hypernative estimates more than $40 million left wallets it links to the platform.
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BitMine buys 8,573 ETH, closing in on 5% supply target
The Ethereum treasury company now holds 6,060,506 ETH, about 4.9% of supply, after its smallest weekly purchase in recent updates.
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Claude AI sketches extreme BNB scenario amid $6.3bn Binance hack
A speculative Anthropic model scenario ties a huge BNB move to institutional RWA settlement, while the exchange handles the largest hack on record.
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Binance draws on futures insurance fund to cover $6.3 billion hack
The exchange says it released only surplus reserves, but public snapshots show the insurance pools it tracks fell about 25% in a day.
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XRP was first asset drained in Binance breach, tracing shows
Five Binance wallets sent 233.46 million XRP to a single attacker address in about four minutes, ahead of outflows across nine chains.
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Binance net outflows reach $3.64B after $6.3B hack as withdrawals resume
Binance processed $4.65B in withdrawals and $1.01B in deposits over nine and a half hours, leaving about $3.64B in net outflows, according to the reports.
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Binance hacker moves $46M in stolen SOL through Relay in bitcoin pivot
Lookonchain traced roughly half of a 970,522 SOL holding through a cross-chain swap service, though public records do not confirm completed bitcoin purchases.
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Binance begins phased withdrawal restart after $6.3 billion breach
Binance says withdrawals will return gradually across 15 networks, starting with major assets, after a $6.3 billion security breach.
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Nasdaq-listed Next Technology authorizes sale or pledge of 5,833 BTC
The board cited Binance's security incident, exchange vulnerabilities and quantum computing, though none of its bitcoin was held on Binance.
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Bitcoin ETF inflows hit $441M, then Binance hack sparks $643M outflow
Bitcoin ETFs added $440.73M over four days, then lost $643.33M Friday after the Binance hack, turning the week negative.
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Chainalysis confirms agentic AI-driven cyberattack exposed customer data
The blockchain analytics firm says names, emails, user IDs and role labels were exposed, while investigation records and credentials were not.
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Binance's $6.4 billion breach leaves bitcoin and ether under pressure
A record $6.4 billion theft from Binance hot wallets has weighed on crypto prices, triggered about $3 billion in frozen funds and drawn in U.S. law enforcement.
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Chainalysis flags novel laundering patterns in $6.4B Binance hack
Chainalysis says attackers used thousands of automated transactions to move stolen Binance funds and linked the $6.4 billion theft to North Korean hackers.
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Binance's $6.3B hack becomes a pre-election political flashpoint
The record crypto heist has drawn comments from Trump, lawmakers and regulators as Binance pauses withdrawals and races to trace stolen funds.
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Crypto market slides as Binance hack and Wall Street selloff hit BTC, ETH, XRP and BNB
Bitcoin tested its 200-day average near $76,400 as BNB, XRP and Ethereum fell amid a $6.3 billion Binance exploit and a sharp US stock selloff.
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Israel extradites alleged Nomad bridge exploiter to US over $2.8M theft
Alexander Block, formerly Alexander Gurevich, was handed to US authorities after Israel's Supreme Court rejected his arguments against extradition.
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Meta AI's speculative XRP forecast sparks debate on institutional adoption
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI outlined an extreme scenario for XRP involving major financial institutions adopting the XRP Ledger for cross-border settlement.
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EIP-7702 didn't cause the Binance hack, analysts say, but may have widened it
Security firms say compromised signing infrastructure drove the $6.3 billion theft, while Ethereum's delegation feature may have helped attackers bypass
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Hackers drain 9,408 SOL from Bloom bot wallets as copied key is blamed
Bitquery traced the losses to 48 wallets whose own keys signed the transfers, while Bloom denied a private-key compromise and refunded nine users.
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Standard Chartered says Binance hack may accelerate DEX shift
Standard Chartered's Geoffrey Kendrick says the $6.3 billion Binance breach could push more trading to decentralized venues and help Uniswap.
