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Crypto firm accidentally sends €33.8 billion in bitcoin to users

  • AFP--TheJournal.ie
  • published date: 2026-02-07 07:46:13 UTC

The platform stressed that the incident was “unrelated to external hacking or security breaches”.

A SOUTH KOREAN cryptocurrency exchange has apologised after mistakenly transferring more than 33.8 billion worth of bitcoin to users, which briefly prompted a selloff on the platform. Bithumb said i… [+1334 chars]