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Binance CEO: The platform has successfully frozen XRP worth $4.2 million in Ripple’s stolen funds

Binance CEO Richard Teng stated on social media that co-founder of Ripple, Chris Larsen's personal account was hacked for 213 million XRP. The Binance team has successfully frozen the attacker's stolen 4.2 million US dollars worth of XRP. Binance will continue to support the investigation and try to help recover the funds, including closely monitoring the remaining funds in the attacker's external wallet to prevent depositing into Binance. Previously, on January 31st, co-founder of Ripple, Chris Larsen, posted on social media that his personal XRP account (unofficial) was hacked yesterday, and the issue was quickly discovered and notified to the trading platform to freeze the relevant address. Law enforcement agencies have been involved.

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