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Cryptocurrency exchange Youbit is filing for insolvency after it was hacked for the second time this year, highlighting concerns for security amid booming trade in Bitcoin and other virtual currencies boom.
Youbit announced on its website that it had been hacked on Tuesday, causing a loss worth 17 percent of its total assets. The South Korean exchange didn't elaborate on the exact amount, but said all customers' cryptocurrency assets would be marked down to 75 percent of its value, and that it was stopping trade to minimize customer losses.
The cryptocurrency exchange had been hacked once before in April when nearly 4, Bitcoins were stolen in a cyber attack that the country's spy agency linked to North Korea, according to a South Korean newspaper report on Saturday. Youbit is a smaller player in South Korea's cryptocurrency market, with the world's busiest cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb accounting for about 70 percent of the country's market share.
The news comes as South Korea last week banned its financial institutions from dealing in virtual currencies such as Bitcoin, as the cryptocurrency soars in a bubble fueled by retail speculators, many of them from the country. South Korea has emerged as a hotbed for cryptocurrency trading, accounting for some 20 percent of global Bitcoin transactions. But trading in the virtual currency has been overshadowed recently by a series of warnings from politicians and financial experts about risks.
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