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Solana wallet provider Phantom said its systems were not compromised in the wallet exploit which saw hackers drain around $4 million. origin »
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Hardware cryptocurrency wallet manufacturer Trezor has divulged that its customers are being targeted by so-called “phishing” attacks after Mailchimp, the firm’s email automation service provider, was “compromised by an insider targeting crypto companies.
2022-4-5 03:30 | |
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The number of hacks has consistently corresponded with the growing popularity of cryptocurrencies. A total of 169 blockchain hacking incidents have taken place in 2021, with nearly $7 billion in fundsThe post AscendEX reportedly loses ~$78M after its hot wallet is compromised appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-12-12 14:00 | |
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A number of forum posts and tweets say that the website bitcoinpaperwallet. com is compromised and people have said they have lost bitcoin using the paper wallet generator. Three years ago the website domain changed ownership and ever since then losses have been reported on Reddit forums, bitcointalk.
2021-2-26 00:30 | |
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Hot wallet attacks have been making a lot of headlines lately.
2020-9-10 21:20 | |
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The unknown hacker is using Tor exit relays to remove encryption on bitcoin mixer services and change wallet addresses from users to their own.
2020-8-13 20:50 | |
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Cryptocurrency hardware provider Ledger experienced a data leak that led to personal details of customers being compromised. User funds are, however, safe. Details Of The Ledger Data Leak In a blog post on July 29, Ledger revealed that its e-commerce and marketing database was hacked between June and July, leaking one million email IDs and […]
2020-7-29 17:39 | |
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Major cryptocurrency hard wallet company Ledger revealed that the platform suffered a data breach causing customers details to be compromised. Customer Funds Unaffected By Breach The company made the announcement via a blog post on Wednesday (July 29, 2020).
2020-7-29 12:56 | |
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After releasing an update for their compromised Trinity wallet, the IOTA Foundation is directing users to change their passwords. More steps will soon be announced to ensure funds are secure. MANY IOTA ACCOUNTS MAY BE COMPROMISED Last week the Iota Foundation stopped its network, the Tangle, after hackers stole funds from at least ten high-value accounts.
2020-2-21 02:00 | |
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The VeChain (VET) buyback program, which boosted the token price, was shaken by a recently discovered loss from the central wallet. The most probable cause was an insider gaining access to the wallet’s private keys, or a human error leading to an exploit.
2019-12-14 22:29 | |
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A VeChain buyback wallet containing 1.1 billion VET was compromised by an unknown hacker, the firm said Friday.
2019-12-14 22:20 | |
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Yesterday, the South Korean exchange Upbit was compromised and $50M of Ethereum (ETH) was reported stolen. $16. 5M of that stolen ETH is on the move and has just been sent to another unknown wallet.
2019-11-29 21:15 | |
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Monero’s official website appears to have been hacked this week. Malicious actors were able to upload a compromised version of Monero’s Command Line Interface wallet that sent private keys to an external server.
2019-11-22 17:20 | |
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On November 19, for 24 hours a download was open for a wallet which exposed newly generated private keys.
2019-11-21 16:18 | |
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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.
2019-11-20 17:07 | |
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Pablo Yabo, the last Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of the investment company Algo Capital has recently affirmed publicly that he takes responsibility for the major security breach that happened to a hot wallet controlled by him.
2019-10-8 00:56 | |
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One of the mobile-based wallets of Algo Capital CTO Pablo Yabo was compromised, leading to losses up to $2 million.
2019-10-7 12:16 | |
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The investment arm of Algorand recently revealed that they have lost close to $2million in Tether after CTO Pablo Yabo’s mobile phone was compromised. Algo Capital is a financial institution focused on powering Algorand’s borderless economy.
2019-10-6 18:15 | |
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A Reddit user said that a URL typo would redirect users to a Trezor scam site while possibly installing compromised firmware
2019-10-5 22:13 | |
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The PayFair project, an Ethereum-based startup that has been around for about three years, closed its site temporarily due to a compromised private key on its chief cold wallet. The funds were moved from the hacked wallet into a still unrevealed new cold storage.
2019-10-3 22:00 | |
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Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a dangerous botnet specifically targeting businesses to steal sensitive data and cryptocurrency. Dubbed “MasterMana Botnet,” the ongoing campaign is believed to be connected to the “Gorgon Group,” a crew of cyberbaddies linked to worldwide criminal activity and repeated attacks on governments.
2019-10-2 19:57 | |
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Thieves have ransacked the Fusion Protocol, a blockchain-powered platform for exchanging “stablecoins” and other tokens, stealing roughly $6. 4 million worth of cryptocurrency. “[On] September 28th 2019, the Fusion swap wallet was compromised, resulting in theft of 10 million native FSN and 3.
2019-9-30 15:09 | |
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Fusion Network’s swap wallet was compromised, resulting in roughly a third of FSN tokens stolen
2019-9-30 16:11 | |
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After Jack Dorsey’s Twitter page was compromised, the Tron CEO makes a recommendation that all crypto users protect their wallets with a non-SMS-based 2FA
2019-8-31 13:33 | |
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MyDashWallet, a service that purports to be the fastest way of using DASH cryptocurrency, has revealed its platform was compromised for two whole months, and is now urging users to move their funds as soon as possible (if they’re still there).
2019-7-15 13:53 | |
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By CCN: Gatehub Founder and CEO Enej Pungercar wrote a public letter disclosing that the company’s infrastructure had been compromised and at least 100 wallets were likely affected. The letter explains that an exploit was located in the company’s API, which enabled certain wallets to be affected.
2019-6-7 03:30 | |
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The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
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By CCN: CipherBlade, a blockchain security research firm, has published the results of a lengthy investigation into the claims of a Coinomi user. How Were the Funds Truly Compromised? Warith Al Maawali contacted CCN and just about every news outlet he could find with the claim that because Coinomi had sent seed phrases to Google for spellchecking, he had lost his entire life savings.
2019-5-24 11:28 | |
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On Tuesday, May 7, hackers stole more than 7,000 bitcoin (over $41 million) from Binance's hot wallet. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao assured users that no other wallets were compromised. Although there is no reported correlation, the price of bitcoin dropped by $290 following the attack.
2019-5-8 17:43 | |
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Binance’s official blog spoke about a security breach in Binance that allowed hackers to get away with 7000 BTCs, a large number of user API keys, 2FA codes, and potentially other info. The blog further added that the targetted attack was on a hot wallet and that only 2% of the total funds in that wallet […] The post Breaking: Binance exchange gets compromised; 7000 BTC worth $40 million withdrawn by hackers appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-5-8 03:48 | |
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According to Israeli sources, a man named Afek Zard is charged with stealing around 75,000 Dash from his friend Alexei Yaromenko after learning about cryptocurrency from Yaromenko. Reportedly, Yaromenko trusted Zard alone in his apartment in Eilat, a city at the southern edge of Israel near the Jordanian and Egyptian borders.
2019-4-23 20:38 | |
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The popular Bitcoin wallet “Electrum” recently reported an attack on its servers calling on users to take additional security measures to ensure their funds are not compromised. In a tweet published by its official account,.
2019-4-10 11:33 | |
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The servers of popular Bitcoin wallet Electrum are under heavy attack, and users are advised to be extra careful when using the platform until it’s resolved. A sophisticated botnet of more than 140,000 machines has launched Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks on Electrum‘s servers, with apparent intent to direct users to compromised versions of the software designed to steal their Bitcoin.
2019-4-8 18:06 | |
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A crypto investor is crying foul after he allegedly lost $70,000 worth of his cryptocurrencies. The investor had stored the cryptos in his Coinomi wallet. According to him, the firm was either negligent in its role, or it actively worked to steal from him.
2019-2-28 21:51 | |
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According to cryptocurrency investor Warith Al Mawali, he has lost all of his life savings in the tune of $60,000 to $70,000 on Coinomi, a widely utilized crypto wallet on Android. In a detailed report, Mawali claimed that a critical vulnerability found on the wallet led to the loss of user funds as it compromised the private key of his wallet.
2019-2-27 16:31 | |
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There are two primary reasons why storing your private crypto keys in the cloud is a bad idea. First, your cloud provider represents a centralized honeypot that could experience a security breach, allowing cyber criminals to access your data.
2019-2-19 00:19 | |
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MyEtherWallet users are being targeted by a phishing email scam, according to the official MyEtherWallet Twitter account. The email asks users to send their private keys to a third party email address to avoid having their wallet data compromised.
2019-2-5 02:11 | |
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ICC, the governing body of international cricket, acknowledged recently that the account of Cricket South Africa was compromised on Twitter. The account was hacked on Monday after which it posted tweets about a Bitcoin lottery.
2019-1-14 22:14 | |
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Electrum hacker stole 245 BTC Electrum wallet was yesterday compromised by a malicious phishing attack, which we wrote about yesterday. New details about this hack emerged today as the potential address of the hacker was revealed, alongside his potential loot.
2018-12-29 02:55 | |
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BitPay’s open source bitcoin wallet Copay has been attacked and exposed to malicious code with the intent to steal Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), the company warned its users in an official blog post on November 26, 2018.
2018-11-29 22:00 | |
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The vulnerability only affects certain versions of the Copay wallet.
2018-11-28 22:38 | |
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A developer has injected a piece of malicious code into the software used by the popular Copay and Bitpay wallets. The safety of the Bitcoin. com wallet was not compromised and the Bitpay app was not vulnerable to the attack, but Copay users need to take precautionary actions.
2018-11-27 18:50 | |
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BitPay’s popular Bitcoin wallet, Copay, has been compromised – and your cryptocurrency might be at risk. Developer BitPay has warned users that its open-source wallet Copay has been infected with malware designed to steal users’ private keys.
2018-11-27 13:45 | |
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The Copay wallet from crypto payments processor BitPay has been compromised by a hacker, the firm warns. An updated version has been released.
2018-11-27 13:15 | |
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A Node.js module called event-stream is used in millions of web applications, including BitPay’s open-source bitcoin wallet — Copay — and this module was reportedly compromised. A user with very little coding activity on GitHub requested publishing rights to the event-stream library from its previous maintainer, Dominic Tarr, who said that he had not maintained […]
2018-11-27 10:45 | |
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In today’s rapidly advancing world of blockchain innovation, it’s no secret that cryptocurrency wallets, exchanges and enterprise platforms are targets for nefarious activity.
2018-10-16 18:58 | |
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An alpha version of the new Lightning desktop app has been released. The application includes a redesigned and optimized backend for light clients, as well as a simplified interface for users with little to no cryptocurrency experience.
2018-9-15 21:22 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-15 20:21 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-7 00:27 | |
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Key takeaways The iDEGEN team has raised nearly $10 million in its presale. The pre-market auction will end three days before $IDGN is listed on exchanges. What is iDEGEN? The cryptocurrency market experienced a boom in 2024, with several new projects hitting the market.
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