[eye30]

"Highly professional" hackers made off with around 4,700 Bitcoin from a leading mining service, a Bitcoin exchange has said.

The value of Bitcoin is currently extremely volatile, but at the time of writing, the amount stolen was worth approximately $80m.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42275523

[mickd]

Extremely volatile is an understatement.
The ABC  News financial section has reported on their value over the last couple of weeks.
Went from $10 k to $ 15k in a week  !   
Maybe I should have answered that email about buying them for  $6k a 2 months ago   ,