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Binance Security Breach Results in 7,000 BTC Stolen (User Funds Still Safe)

Posted by Thomas DeMichele on May 8, 2019 in News

Binance had a security breach where hackers carefully orchestrated stealing BTC from Binance. User’s BTC affected will be replaced by Binance.

These aren’t the type of stories I like to rewrite for clicks. I instead suggest hearing it straight from Binance.

See the official Binance Security Breach Update.

Binance will use the #SAFU fund to cover this incident in full. No user funds will be affected.

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Benedict

May 14, 2019 at 9:16 pm

Nice article up there. Who else know about this new platform called Assetstream, just wanna know if it legit.

Thomas DeMicheleThe Author

May 15, 2019 at 5:54 pm

I can’t tell you whether it is legit or not, but at least a Google search turns up a site, Twitter, etc. That means you can do your Due Diligence and research.

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