Hackers steal $65 million … in bitcoin

Hackers made off with approximately $65 million in bitcoin in an enormous security breach of Hong Kong-based exchange Bitfinex on Tuesday. The digital currency thieves managed to get ahold of a total of 119,756 bitcoin, prompting Bitfinex to freeze all customer accounts, which resulted in a 20 percent nosedive in the price of bitcoin. Since, prices have recovered a bit.

"This will hurt confidence but people already using bitcoin are still trading," Arthur Hayes, founder of Hong Kong-based BitMEX, told The Financial Times.

The hack is being compared to a cyberattack on the exchange Mt. Gox, which ended up folding in 2014 after it lost 850,000 bitcoin, then worth about $500 million. That hack is still being investigated.

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Zane Tackett, who serves as the director of community and product development at Bitfinex, told CNN that the exchange is working to track the stolen bitcoins.