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New Delhi, Oct 8 World's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has confirmed that hackers have stolen more than $100 million from its platform.The Binance Blockchain, also known as BNB Chain, said that a total of 2 million BNB tokens worth nearly $568 million were initially stolen by the hacker.However, the company suspended the BMB Chain which resulted in more than $100 million being vanished, while the rest of the tokens couldn't be transferred by the cybercriminals.Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said in a tweet that the company estimates the impact of the breach to be between $100 million and $110 million."The issue is contained now. Your funds are safe. We apologise for the inconvenience and will provide further updates accordingly," Zhao posted late on Friday.The exploit was through a sophisticated forging of the low-level proof into one common library.The company said that it will give $1 million for each significant bug found by researchers in the BNB Chain."There is a bounty for catching hackers, up to 10 per cent of the recovered funds," the company announced."A new on-chain governance mechanism will be introduced on the BNB Chain to fight and defend future possible attacks," it added.There has been a series of attacks on targeting vulnerabilities in cross-chain bridges on crypto exchanges in the recent past.In June, a hacker exploited a bug to steal $100 million from Harmony's Horizon Bridge.In August, cyber-criminals stole $190 million worth of crypto from the Nomad cross-chain bridge.According to Blockchain data provider Chainalysis, nearly $2 billion in cryptocurrency has been stolen in cross-chain bridge hacks to date.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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