Coinbase's Volatile Weekend: Security Threat, Service Paused & Restored, Site Crash

Major crypto exchange Coinbase experienced a volatile weekend with a vulnerability reported, a service paused and re-started, and its site crashing following what seems to have been a successful Super Bowl ad.
Tree of Alpha, a pseudonymous white-hat hacker, notified Coinbase of a "potentially market-nuking" vulnerability on Friday. The exchange was fast to react, disabling retail advanced trading....
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