Mining Market NiceHash Refunds Users 4,640 Bitcoin Lost in 2017 Hack

The company has "regularly waived profits" for three years, the firm's CEO wrote Thursday.

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DeFi Founder Targeted in $8m Hack Says He Has His Hacker’s IP

The decentralized finance (DeFi) space was rocked last morning by news that Nexus Mutual founder Hugh Karp was hit with a personal attack. His project, a decentralized mutual product to allow users to hedge against risks in the DeFi space, was not directly affected.

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Cryptopia claims portal open for refund registration

Cryptopia liquidators Grant Thornton have officially opened the Cryptopia claims portal raising the hopes of users who lost access to their assets following the 2019 exchange hack

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Cryptopia liquidators open official claims portal

Cryptopia liquidators Grant Thornton have officially opened a claims portal raising the hopes of users who lost access to their assets following the 2019 exchange hack

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GoDaddy’s DNS Hack Is at the Center of Several Crypto Domains Being Compromised: Report

Earlier this month, BEG reported that Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange, Liquid. com, experienced a data breach hack, affecting the users’ Know your Customer (KYC) information. The attack follows GoDaddy’s, the world’s largest domain registrar, an incursion that saw hackers trick the firm’s employees into transferring ownership and control over targeted domains.

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Harvest Finance запускает программу компенсации убытков

Анонимные разработчики протокола Harvest Finance анонсировали программу компенсации убытков, возникших в результате «инженерной ошибки» в октябре. How GRAIN works, a thread: For the affected USDC/USDT users from the hack who experienced the 15% drawdown, they'll get GRAIN tokens in a pro-rata manner based on their deposits, as well as their pro rata share of the 2.5M. […]

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Crypto Users Saw Robinhood Hack Coming a Mile Away

Cryptocurrency investors have long warned about the dangers of leaving coins on mobile trading app Robinhood. Turns out they were onto something. Robinhood, which was popularized for its commission-free trades, has suffered a security breach in which close to 2,000 accounts were affected, Bloomberg reported, citing a person close to the situation.

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CryptoWhale on why the 150k BTC compensation to Mt. Gox users could be catastrophic to Bitcoin’s price

Mt. Gox Users who fell victim to the 2014 infamous hack of the Bitcoin exchange might finally get their funds back in the next 10 days, if the rehabilitation plan to compensate them goes through on October 15.

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Ledger Calls Out KuCoin After Hack as Wallet Users Cry Foul

Following the KuCoin hack, hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger went on to advocate for safer storage on its own wallets. KuCoin, a major Asian crypto exchange platform, has been the victim of a hack in which $150 million in crypto was stolen, as BeInCrypto reported.

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Court finds Bithumb 'partially liable' for 2017 hack

A judge in the Seoul Central District Court today announced a ruling regarding a lawsuit filed by three users of Bithumb Korea who claimed $126,000 and $38,000 for damages citing data leaks during a 2The post Court finds Bithumb 'partially liable' for 2017 hack appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Hacker Hijacks Twitter Account of Indian Prime Minister’s Relief Fund, Asks Followers for Crypto

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the latest victim of a Twitter hack undertaken to trick social media users into sending crypto to the attackers.

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Phishing Attacks On Electrum Wallet Sees Over $16 Million Stolen From Unsuspecting Users

New reports show that over $500,000 worth of Bitcoin (BTC) has been siphoned from Electrum wallets – about 72 hours after a GitHub user claimed they had lost 1,400 BTC in a similar hack. Some of the funds have been traced to Binance, with the exchange blacklisting up to 70 accounts linked to the transaction […] The post Phishing Attacks On Electrum Wallet Sees Over Million Stolen From Unsuspecting Users first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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DeFi Review: What Is Nexus Mutual? Introduction to NXM

Nexus Mutual's so-called “Smart Contract Cover” would provide users an extra level of safety for events like the DAO hack in 2016.

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Crypto Firm Hacked for $1.4M Admits It Will Struggle to Reimburse Users

Madrid-based payment app and card issuer 2gether said it can only reimburse investors with its native tokens following Friday’s hack.

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Twitter Releases Details of Attack Vector Used by Crypto Hacker

Twitter has published an update on its investigation into the causes of the recent hack, during which 12 Bitcoin was conned out of the platform’s users.

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Twitter Stock Pumps in Aftermath of Crypto Scammer Hack

Twitter stocks have risen 8% since the major data breach the company suffered last week. The social media platform revealed a record increase in users in the second quarter and added a staggering $1 billion to its market capitalization during this period.

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Twitter Confirms that DMs of 36 High Profile Users Were Affected by Hack

Coinspeaker Twitter Confirms that DMs of 36 High Profile Users Were Affected by HackFurther updates have been provided by Twitter following the hack of its platform last week. The new information shows that the DMs of 36 accounts were compromised.

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Coinbase Users Were Prevented From Sending Over 30 BTC to the Twitter Hackers

Following the Twitter hack in which the hackers successfully stole $120,000 in BTC through a giveaway scam, Coinbase has revealed that it prevented over a thousand of its users from sending a total of 30.

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Twitter Hack Could Have Been a Lot Worse: New Details

Coinspeaker Twitter Hack Could Have Been a Lot Worse: New DetailsIt has become known that Coinbase saved over 1,000 users from sending Bitcoins to scammers in the recent Twitter hack.

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Twitter On Fire After Obama, Musk, Gates Accounts Were Hijacked to Promote Bitcoin Scams

It was galore of commotion for the entire Twitter space on the 15th of July. Users of the social media application have been left in shock after witnessing what Cybersecurity experts say is the “worst hack of a major social media platform yet.

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Chainalysis Says Bitcoin Scammed From Twitter Users Is ‘On the Move’

The defrauded bitcoin amassed during Wednesday’s monumental Twitter hack is already “on the move,” according to cryptocurrency tracing firm Chainalysis.

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Ethereum users continue to accumulate despite DeFi hack, ETH 2.0 uncertainty

It’s been a boring past few weeks in the crypto markets.

The post Ethereum users continue to accumulate despite DeFi hack, ETH 2.0 uncertainty appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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DeFi Protocol dForce Successfully Compensates All Users After Last Week’s $24.95 Million Hack

Chinese decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, dForce was hacked last week but the startup promised to make users whole again. The platform announced that it has fully compensated the victims through the funds that the hacker returned.

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DeFi Project dForce Refunds All Affected Users After $25M Hack

The Lendf.me smart contract was hacked on April 29, but then, curiously, the funds were returned two days later.

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Happy Ending of Ethereum DeFi Hack Still Leaves Much to Be Desired

It has been a tumultuous ride for users of Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) over the past few days. The evening of April 18th saw DeFi protocol Lendf. me go into a tailspin, with the protocol’s primary address bleeding funds at a rapid clip.

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Cryptopia Update: Victims of Hacked Bitcoin Exchange to Receive $100M Compensation

A Christchurch High Court has ruled that over 800,000 users of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange platform Cryptopia, are entitled to the digital assets held in their accounts before the hack occurred.

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Court Classifies Crypto As ‘Property’ After Cryptopia Exchange Hack; Funds Returning to Users

The High Court of New Zealand ruled on April 8, 2020, that the cryptocurrencies are beneficially owned by the account holders and aren’t the assets of the company, on the basis that cryptos are “property” under Companies Act and cryptos were held on multiple trusts.

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High Court Delivers Judgement on User Assets at Hacked Exchange Cryptopia

Users at the now-defunct exchange Cryptopia are the co-beneficiaries of trusts that contained their assets prior to the platform’s hack

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Cryptopia Users Win Victory in Court Case Over Crypto Assets Worth Over $100M

In the fallout from a massive hack of the New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange, users at last have a little good news.

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Iota Founder Confirms He Will Repay Victims of $1.97 Million Hack

Iota’s founder will personally repay the 8.52 million MIOTA that were stolen from 46 Iota users in last month’s attack

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Crypto Investment Fund Suffers Hack Exposing Data of 266,000 Users: Report

The personal data of about 266,000 people registered with the fund may have been exposed.

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IOTA Urges Users To Use New Seed Migration Tool After Trinity Wallet Hack

Following IOTA’s recent hack on its Trinity Wallet, the development team is urging the users to protect their wallets by changing their passwords and implementing a secure way for users to protect their funds.

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Upbit Continues to Freeze Crypto Withdrawals For Foreign Users

South Korean crypto exchange, Upbit, started to block withdrawals for its foreign users back in December 2019. Initially it was thought to be in response to the hack that took place, but now it seems it may have something to do with the company’s outstanding tax fine.

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IOTA (MIOTA) Urges Trinity Owners to Protect Their Wallets, Here?s How

After the recent hack faced by IOTA?s Trinity Wallet, the IOTA team is urging users to protect their balance stored on crypto wallets, providing the necessary tool for it

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Upbit Exchange Resumes Ether Services Months After $49M Hack

Upbit said users will need to create new wallet addresses to resume trading.

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Hashpower Broker NiceHash Can’t Promise to Fully Reimburse Hack Losses

Hashpower rental marketplace NiceHash has frozen its repayment program for users affected by a major hack in Dec. 2017 due to insufficient cash flow

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1.4 Million User’s Emails, Keys And Passwords From Crypto Wallet Gatehub Leaked In Latest Hack

A security researcher from the data breach index site “Have I Been Pwned” recently reported that personal data and passwords belonging to GateHub wallet users had been dumped in a hacking community website.

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Ethereum and Bitcoin Price Similarities Outlined by Analyst

Ethereum is at an important phase for its future development, as it is preparing for the release of Ethereum 2. 0, a proposed hard fork. However, the overwhelming majority of its users disagree with the idea of implementing a hard fork after the hack with the goal of reverting chain activity.

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BitMEX Exposes User Emails In Data Leak; Twitter Hack Follows

BitMEX has experienced a data leak, but not in the way you might expect. In a major misstep, the company accidentally shared user email addresses with its customers. On November 1st, the exchange issued a statement: “Earlier today, some of our users received an email which contained the email addresses of other users in the […] The post BitMEX Exposes User Emails In Data Leak; Twitter Hack Follows appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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BitMEX Twitter ‘Hack’ Incites Ominous Warning: ‘Take Your Bitcoin & Run’

Following the mammoth BitMEX user data leak, the bitcoin exchange’s Twitter account was allegedly hacked. While under the perpetrator’s control, the account tweeted an ominous warning: “Take your BTC and run.

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Update: BitMEX Reassures Its Users That All Funds Are Safe, Claims Trolls Targeted Its Twitter Account

Earlier today, news of a leak of thousands of BitMEX users emerged on Twitter, now BitMEX accounts reports a hack

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Mt. Gox Users Get New Postponement Update as the Submission Deadline Moves to March 2020

Mt. Gox the infamous bitcoin exchange which shut its operations down and filed for liquidation back in April 2014 claiming to have lost 750,000 BTC to a hack attack and since then it has been involved in a never-ending saga of court cases filed by the investors. The investors filed a lawsuit against CEO Mark […]

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Ethereum Network Not Rolled Back After DAO Hack

The Ethereum (ETH) network was not really rolled back after the DAO hack, explained the project’s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin. Instead, the record was altered in the state of the DAO. The “Surgical Intervention” Did Not Roll Back General Transactions Innocent users did not see any of their transactions invalidated and rolled back, explained Buterin.

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Vitalik Asks: Should Ethereum Transactions Be Reversible? 60% Of ETH Community Says No

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, is stirring the pot with cryptocurrency users with a recent poll that he took on Twitter. He asked about the opinions of followers on reversing chain activity, if there was ever a major hack of an exchange or another entity.

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QuadrigaCX Founder’s Widow to Compensate Exchange Hack Victims

Jennifer Robertson — the widow of late QuadrigaCX founder, Gerald ‘Gerry’ Cotten, has agreed to hand over assets belonging to the defunct bitcoin exchange in compensation of affected users. Liquidating Assets Belonging to QuadrigaCX Bitcoin Exchange According to CBC News, Robertson is set to hand over QuadrigaCX assets still in her possession to Ernst & Young — Trustees of the bitcoin exchange’s liquidation proceedings.

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NZ Hacked Exchange, Cryptopia’s Liquidators To Meet With Token Dev’s Today To Discuss Settlements

In mid-January this year, popular New Zealand crypto exchange, Cryptopia announced its hack which saw users lose crypto assets valued at $16 million USD (which could currently be much higher). After several investigations, court proceedings and pleas for bankruptcy in the U.

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South Korean court orders CoinOne to compensate user for hack; imposes withdrawal cap

Seoul’s Southern District Court has ruled that the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, CoinOne, is required to compensate users who have suffered losses due to hacked accounts that violate the withdrawal limit imposed by government policies.

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OKEx Crypto Exchange Calms Investors Down Regarding Recent Massive BTC Transfers to Unknown Wallet

Following the recent huge Bitcoin transfers from the OKEx exchange, the CEO calms the community down but the comments show users are in doubt suspecting a hack

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Bitcoin History Part 16: The First Mt. Gox Hack

No one remembers the first Mt. Gox hack. It was a small sum, even by 2011’s standards, and the exchange reimbursed all users. The incident was to prove significant, however, for it set in motion a string of attacks on other bitcoin platforms that began the very next day.

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