2019-11-4 05:30 |
Gregg Bennett had never heard of SIM swapping before. Then, one night in April, he learned in the worst way one can.
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For every legitimate opportunity in the cryptocurrency industry, there are almost the same number of scams, and one of the most common tricks is the exit scam. An exit scam is a plan that allows a “company” to gain as much funding from unsuspecting investors.
2019-11-1 18:01 | |
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The crypto market is a volatile market, and the emerging class of digital assets can both make millionaires overnight and completely wipe out one’s wealth in days. It’s also a wild west environment, rife with scammers, hackers, and more at every turn.
2019-10-26 00:00 | |
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Doug Flutie’s Maximum Football 2019? You’ve probably never heard of it. This brand new college football sim released yesterday for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and the reaction has been, well, interesting to put it mildly.
2019-9-29 00:34 | |
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Few games offer the same stratospheric success as Grand Theft Auto V has for publisher Rockstar Games. Despite releasing what feels like a lifetime ago precisely six years to the day, the consummate open-world criminal sim remains one of the best selling games month after month.
2019-9-18 21:29 | |
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As we march ever forward to Sept. 24 when this year's iteration of EA's perennial beautiful game sim, FIFA 20, releases, a steady stream of new details are hitting the internet every day. Among them is the news that one of the most coveted cosmetic rewards in the game is, well, a goat.
2019-9-12 14:58 | |
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A lawsuit involving stolen crypto and one of America’s largest mobile carriers is moving forward. The $224 million suit involved digital identity theft which resulted in one customer losing s substantial amount of cryptocurrency last year.
2019-7-25 13:15 | |
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When we think of eSports, games like Overwatch, League of Legends, and Fortnite spring to mind – not Farming Simulator 19. If we were to suggest the agricultural sim as an eSport, we'd expect a more muted response, if not one defined by utter confusion.
2019-7-22 01:00 | |
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As the prices of cryptocurrencies soar high, the number of scams around the coins has also seen a drastic increase. Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world through their academy program tried to spread some awareness about the crypto thefts taking place in the space.
2019-6-24 04:30 | |
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A few weeks ago, when my colleagues were busy listening to Mark Zuckerberg yanking about a ‘Privacy-first future’ of Facebook, I was exploring the streets of Europe, drinking fresh beer. The iPhone Xs, with my main SIM card, was one of the phones I was carrying for the trip.
2019-5-24 14:53 | |
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Phone hijacking, also known as SIM swapping, is considered a major threat to digital asset holders. Many cases were registered of phone numbers being ported by the hijackers to gain access to one time passwords and validate transactions or change account passwords.
2019-5-22 19:00 | |
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By CCN: SIM hijackers aiming to steal bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are getting bolder and more daring. No longer are they just going for the soft targets but are now even pursuing the technologically adept and sophisticated.
2019-5-21 16:59 | |
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Joel Ortiz, the 21-year-old student who was accused of stealing over $7. 5 million in digital assets via a SIM swapping operation, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
2019-4-23 15:27 | |
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The CoolWallet S, made by CoolBit X, combines hot and cold storage solutions, blending the mobility afforded by software wallets with the enhanced security features offered by hardware wallets.
2019-4-4 00:05 | |
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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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It’s the iPhone we all thought Apple would make someday: a device with no buttons, no ports, no headphone jack, not even a SIM card tray. After the company killed the headphone jack, it seemed just a matter of time until it released a phone was that was seemed to be “a single sheet of glass,” as Jony Ive once put it.
2019-1-24 17:45 | |
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Nicolas Truglia has earned his place in the news lately for his theft of $1 million in digital assets, leading to an arrest. Newly released court documents show that one of his victims, Michael Terpin, is coming to get what is rightfully his, suing Truglia for $81 million. Terpin was one of the earliest investors […]
2019-1-18 19:11 | |
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Victims Of A SIM Swapping Scam Are Pressuring Telecommunications Giants To Protect Customers Cybercrime is one of the mediums of crime that has continued to climb over the course of 2017 & 2018.
2019-1-10 21:03 | |
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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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Cryptocurrency-related crimes are closely resembling those drawn out of a James Bond movie script. In late September, Oklahoma officials arrested two men, 21-year-old Joseph Harris and 23-year-old Fletcher Robert Childers, for allegedly stealing around $14 million using SIM-swapping methods from Crowd Machine, a blockchain firm.
2018-10-15 17:59 | |
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Most digital exchanges are unregulated and therefore unqualified to safely process cryptocurrency transactions. They don’t employ necessary know-your-customer (KYC) tactics, and roughly $1 billion in digital asset funds have been stolen since the start of 2018.
2018-10-13 23:34 | |
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Police in Santa Clara, California, have arrested a 19-year-old SIM swapper who allegedly stole over $1 million in cryptocurrencies. One victim alleged that he lost $150,000 in crypto as a result of the SIM card fraud.
2018-8-25 22:15 | |
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A brief series of cyber attacks recently led to the theft of an astoundingly large amount of cryptocurrency. The perpetrator, Joel Ortiz, broke into his victims’ cryptocurrency accounts and withdrew funds.
2018-8-3 04:47 | |
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A brief series of cyber attacks recently led to the theft of an astoundingly large amount of cryptocurrency. The perpetrator, Joel Ortiz, broke into his victims’ cryptocurrency accounts and withdrew funds.
2018-8-2 02:38 | |
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A Kickstarter campaign for a satirical visual novel takes the expression “Fuck ISIS” to a whole new level. The visual novel, titled The Super Patriotic Dating Simulator, stars Elodie, a beautiful American teenager who’s also a CIA super spy.
2018-7-25 02:27 | |
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