Crypto

Bithumb, South Korea’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, said Wednesday that an outsider breached an internal employee mobile system and stole personal information.

Bitcoin rose nearly 2% to just under $81,000 on Wednesday morning in Asia, recovering from a weekend slide to nearly $79,000.

US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds attracted $176 million in net inflows on Tuesday, extending a recovery into a second consecutive trading day, according to SoSoValue data.

Bithumb, a South Korea-based crypto exchange, is investigating a data leak after hackers breached its internal mobile system earlier this week.

VanEck has launched the Wealth Builder ETF, an actively managed fund that blends stocks, bonds, real assets and a small Bitcoin allocation.