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Someone stole Stake’s stake.

Stake, an online cryptocurrency betting platform, allegedly lost about $40 million in unauthorized withdrawals from several of its hot wallets. Stake says that “user funds are safe,” which, you know. Hope so! It’d be terrible to lose your money to hackers before you had a chance to lose it by gambling with crypto.

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