(Reuters) -Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit said on Friday an attacker gained control of an ether wallet and transferred around $1.5 billion worth of holdings to an unidentified address. The ether cold wallet was the only one that was attacked and all other wallets of the exchange were unaffected,

Bitcoin and Ether prices dipped, while smaller tokens saw worse losses, as traders reacted to an almost $1.5 billion hack of the Bybit exchange that analysts say was the largest crypto theft ever. Bitcoin reversed an earlier gain of as much as 1.