🇺🇸 NEW: SEC staff says platforms facilitating trades in crypto asset securities may need to register as broker-dealers.

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JUST IN: Kraken crypto exchange says it is being 'extorted' by a criminal group threatening to release videos showing internal systems and client data.
The exchange says its systems have not been breached and customer funds are not at risk.

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