2020-7-25 00:21 |
Last week's Twitter hack, which downed a key CoinDesk channel for seven days, showed how news groups are overly dependent on social media. origin »
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The $60 million hack in 2016 led to a controversial revision of the blockchain, and was a factor leading to the ICO boom starting the following year, argues David Z Morris. This feature is part of our “CoinDesk Turns 10” series.
2023-5-9 17:09 | |
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Is the Twitter hack a watershed moment to decentralized social media? Does it reinforce negative stereotypes of Bitcoin only being used in crime? CoinDesk asked crypto luminaries to see what they think.
2020-7-17 01:24 | |
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TEZOS dumped BTC and a clever hack to survive Zoom meetings. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast.
2020-3-24 19:05 | |
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Bitcoin price goes up along with traditional markets while hackers hack hackers. Welcome to CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast.
2020-3-10 19:00 | |
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It’s a new week, which means only one thing: it’s time for Hard Fork’s roundup of cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines from over the weekend. Let’s get to it. 1. Security researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered a new type of cryptocurrency mining botnet.
2019-6-24 10:55 | |
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By CCN. com: A 21-year-old Boston man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for stealing $7. 5 million in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies by hacking his victims’ cell phones through a practice called “SIM swapping.
2019-4-23 14:36 | |
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By CCN. com: A 21-year-old Boston man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for stealing $7. 5 million in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies by hacking his victims’ cell phones through a practice called “SIM swapping.
2019-4-23 14:36 | |
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Today, February 5, 2019, a court in Nova Scotia, Canada, granted bankruptcy protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) to the embattled Vancouver-based cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX.
2019-2-6 23:12 | |
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One of the internet’s longest serving digital asset exchanges, Cryptopia, claims to have been hit by a debilitating hack. After a full day of unscheduled maintenance outages, the NZ-based cryptocurrency exchange posted an official statement, explaining it had suffered “a security breach which resulted in significant losses.
2019-1-15 14:02 | |
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On Wednesday, roughly 35 billion Korean won (around $31 million) in cryptocurrency was stolen by hackers from the South Korea-based exchange Bithumb. According to a follow-up report from CoinDesk Korea, Bithumb conducted a security enhancement checkup on June 16, just days before the confirmed hack.
2018-6-20 15:34 | |
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Twitter has hired Peiter Zatko, a prominent white-hat hacker going by the handle "Mudge," to help prevent future security breaches.
NYDFS said cybersecurity must be treated as critical infrastructure by governments and corporations alike.
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.
According to a recent report, a 16-year-old was served with a search warrant by federal agents at his home on Tuesday.
The 17-year-old charged with being the mastermind behind July's Twitter hack has pleaded not guilty; the defense says bail posted is "grossly inappropriate" to the amount of money stolen.
The SIM swapping community entered the spotlight after helping the Twitter hacker breach the social media platform, but these threat actors have been going after the crypto community for years.
Twitter hack alleged ringleader Graham Clark, the subject of a previous criminal investigation, had bail set at $725,000 at his first court appearance Saturday.