2023-6-25 06:10 |
The hacker managed to steal $794,000 worth of crypto from an exchange via a SIM swap attack on an executive, but didn’t cover his tracks well. origin »
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A British hacker, Joseph O'Connor, aka the PlugwalkJoe, has been sentenced to five years in a United States prison for stealing $794,000 worth of crypto through a SIM swap attack
2023-6-25 13:44 | |
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Security firm PeckShield reported that the hacker successfully drained roughly 551 BNB off CoW Swap into Tornado Cash, which was worth around $181,600 at the time of writing.
2023-2-7 11:17 | |
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Bitkeep issued a statement stating that the company would compensate all victims affected by the attack out of the company's reserves.
2022-10-18 14:00 | |
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Decentralized multichain wallet BitKeep lost $1 million on October 17 to a hacker who exploited its swap features on the BNB chain. The post BitKeep suffers $1M hack appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-10-18 13:15 | |
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Команда проекта BitKeep сообщила о взломе кошелька Swap, пообещав компенсировать потери пострадавшим пользователям. 1/5 BitKeep Swap was hacked, and our development team has managed to contain the emergency and stopped the hacker.
2022-10-18 12:47 | |
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Under the agreement, more than $2 million would be returned to Transit Swap users.
2022-10-10 19:30 | |
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Majority of the DeFi tokens in Top-100 traded in red barring a few, thanks to the weekend rout in the market correction towards the end of the week.
2022-10-8 23:15 | |
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The biggest news in the cryptosphere for October 3 includes, Binance burning 5. 5 billion LUNC tokens, Tether reducing its commercial paper holdings below $50 million, and Transit Swap hacker returning over 70% of stolen funds.
2022-10-4 01:53 | |
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Transit Swap, a cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, has received 70% of stolen funds back from a hacker that exploited a smart contract vulnerability.
2022-10-4 18:00 | |
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Cross-chain DEX aggregator Transit Swap had a rough weekend after it lost over $21 million of users’ funds to a vulnerability attack. The post Transit Swap hacker returns $16.5M of stolen funds appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-10-3 14:30 | |
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One of the largest decentralized exchanges in the cryptocurrency world, Transit Swap, had formally been breached, and those responsible for the breach have paid about $21 million. A swap contract in the multi-chain DEX had an internal weakness that the…
2022-10-3 13:59 | |
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The funds returned so far has come in the form of Ether (ETH), Binance-pegged ETH and BNB ($14.2 million).
2022-10-3 05:22 | |
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Decentralized exchange aggregator Transit Swap lost $21 million to an exploit after a hacker took advantage of an internal fault in its swap contract. The post Hacker Exploits $21M Vulnerability in Transit Swap appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-10-3 14:17 | |
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“We are deeply sorry,” stated Transit Swap while revealing that a bug in the code allowed a hacker to make away with an estimated $21 million.
2022-10-3 09:18 | |
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ThorChain, a decentralized finance (DeFi) token swap protocol based on the Cosmos blockchain, lost roughly $4.8 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) from its liquidity pools to a hacker attack today. The post DeFi darling ThorChain (RUNE) suffers multi-million dollar exploit appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2021-7-17 13:00 | |
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Kathryn Nguyen, a 25-year-old Sydney female has been charged with stealing 100,000 XRP in January 2018 and has been sentenced to 2 years and 3 months in prison. Nguyen, together with an associate, hacked a 56-year-old person’s cryptocurrency account and proceeded to swap the two-factor authentication into her phone. After the swap was completed, the […]
2020-8-11 12:01 | |
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A hacker has drained the account of a Chinese whale of approximately $45 million in a SIM-swap heist. For those in the dark, a SIM swap attack is an act of porting a user’s mobile number to another SIM card in the possession of a hacker without the user’s knowledge. The bad actor is then […]
2020-2-22 17:49 | |
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A Chinese investor lost $45 million in bitcoins and BCH as a result of a hacker attack allegedly via SIM swap. Now the victim tries to find support of miners.
2020-2-26 11:55 | |
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A teenage hacker tapped into 75 mobile phones in a massive identity theft spree which allegedly netted him a million dollars’ worth of crypto assets. Crypto Targeted in Phone Jacking Spree According to reports Brooklyn, New York-based Yousef Selassie stole the identities of 75 people via their smartphones in an effort to steal $1 million in cryptocurrency.
2019-12-19 10:00 | |
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Michael Terpin wrote an open letter to the FCC chairman, requesting to take decisive action against SIM swapping after a hacker stole $24 million
2019-10-22 04:27 | |
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A group of six hackers by the name “The Community” are to be sentenced to more than 20 years each in prison for stealing more than $2. 4 million worth of cryptocurrencies using multiple SIM swap attacks, Independent IE reported May 13, 2019.
2019-5-14 05:00 | |
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According to a recent report, Joel Ortiz, the 20-year-old student from Boston who was indicted by prosecutors in Santa Clara, California, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in what is believed to be the very first SIM swapping conviction in the United States.
2019-2-6 01:17 | |
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Joel Ortiz is just 20 years old, but he already knows what he will be doing with the next ten years of his life – jail time. Ortiz was recently the thief of $5 million in cryptocurrency, which he took from 40 separate victims by swapping out their SIM cards. However, he did not get […]
2019-2-2 21:21 | |
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SIM swap hacks are becoming very common in the cryptocurrency space. In a recent case, a hacker was able to steal cryptocurrency worth $1 million from a San Francisco-based victim. The 21-year-old hacker also hacked into the phones of numerous Silicon Valley executives.
2018-11-22 19:29 | |
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Leading cryptocurrency investor law firm Silver Miller Law has filed suit against cell phone giants AT&T and T-Mobile on behalf of several digital asset investors who were victims of the identity-theft tactic known as “SIM swapping.
2018-11-10 01:35 | |
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We all dream of the day we can buy a coke (or other cola flavoured soft drink) through the power of the lightning network. Wouldn’t it be great if we could swap a few satoshi’s for a nice cold glass of coke? Well, now, thanks to the creative mind of Ricardo Reis, a hardware hacker from Spain, you can do just that.
2018-10-2 08:00 | |
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Shopin — a universal shopper profile that delivers personal shopping experiences through retailers’ apps, websites and stores — says one of its token distributors has been hacked and roughly $10 million in a variety of cryptocurrencies has been stolen.
2018-6-11 01:22 | |
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Peter Schiff, a well-known figure in the world of finance and a vocal critic of cryptocurrencies, has found himself at the center of a questionable incident on Twitter today. In a brazen attack, hackers targeted Schiff to promote what appears to be a fake $GOLD coin scam. The news of this hack came to light […]
In the past week, reports emerged that some key members of the Onecoin scam were found dead in Mexico. According to reports, the two Oscar Brito Ibarra and Ignacio Ibarra may have been kidnapped and murdered but the motives behind their murder is unclear.
The admin panel used by hackers to access over one hundred accounts can be used by over 1,000 twitter employees — two former Twitter employees revealed.
Following Wednesday’s serious security breach on Twitter, U. S. Senator Josh Hawley has sent an open letter to bitcoin-friendly Jack Dorsey, the CEO of the microblogging platform in a bid to find out the steps the team is taking to mitigate the attack, according to a report on July 16, 2020.
Bitcoin traders seem unfazed by the massive Twitter hack on Wednesday, as the price of the top cryptocurrency has largely remained steady. Prominent U. S. figures including billionaires Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos were targeted by hackers in an apparent Twitter bitcoin (BTC) scam.
The security loopholes of popular micro-blogging platform Twitter were exposed last night as a perpetrator/group of perpetrators promoting a bitcoin scam breached the accounts of numerous influential personalities, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Joe Biden, among others.