MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Tuesday, Bitfinex said they had discovered a security breach that required all trading to be halted, as well as the suspension of all digital token deposits and withdrawals from Bitfinex. Nearly 120,000 units of the digital currency were stolen, which according to various media reports equates to from $65 million to $72 million.
According to the BBC, the 10 percent fall in bitcoin's value against the dollar was a market reaction to the major security breach of the Bitfinex digital currency exchange platform.
On Tuesday, bitcoin saw its value decrease by over 23 percent after news of the security breach broke.
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