Who Got Hacked This Week? December 2 Edition

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$50M Stolen in Upbit Hack

After suspending deposits and withdrawals and conducting “an emergency server check,” Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit has notified users that it was hacked.

Lee promises that exchange users’ losses, “will be covered by Upbit assets.”

He also says that all cryptocurrencies in the exchange’s “hot wallets” (online storage repositories) have now been transferred to “cold wallets” (offline storage devices similar to thumb drives).

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