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DMM Bitcoin loses 4,502 BTC

The Japanese exchange disclosed an unauthorised outflow worth roughly $305 million, the largest bitcoin theft of the year.

The company covered customer balances with group funding and wound down the following year, transferring accounts to another operator. Investigators attributed the theft to North Korean actors.