North Korea suspected in crypto theft | Beginner German Lesson (A0-A1) from Today's News

Today's story: The biggest cyber theft: North Korea is suspected.. You will hear it in German first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in German: Größter Cyber-Diebstahl: Nordkorea steht unter Verdacht
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:31) More stories today
(01:33) Today's headline, slowly
(02:17) Digital money
(03:04) People who investigate
(03:34) Working together
(04:20) Today's grammar point
(04:51) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
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TODAY'S GERMAN TEXT
Größter Cyber-Diebstahl: Nordkorea steht unter Verdacht
Hacker haben bei Binance mehr als sechs Milliarden Dollar in Kryptowährungen gestohlen.
Am späten Nachmittag dauerte der Diebstahl etwa zwanzig Minuten.
Forscher vermuten Nordkorea hinter dem Diebstahl.
Binance arbeitet mit anderen Krypto-Börsen und hat etwa drei Milliarden Dollar eingefroren.
Binance will Kunden ihr verlorenes Geld zurückzahlen.
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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- vocabulary (Kryptowährungen)
- vocabulary (dauerte)
- vocabulary (Forscher)
- verb (arbeiten)
- vocabulary (zurückzahlen)
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