2019-3-21 23:00 |
After months of silence, compromised exchange Cryptopia has emailed its customer base with information about its January 14th breach, its current operational status, and its plan to compensate users who lost funds. origin »
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Users of the recently hacked cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia will now have a new page to check the status of their digital assets after the attack. The New Zealand-based crypto exchange has been trying to get the funds back and run the exchange once again.
2019-3-18 20:00 | |
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More than a fortnight since Cryptopia hinted at reimbursing users affected by a security breach that occurred in mid-January, the New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange has confirmed to customers that it will offer a ‘rebate’.
2019-3-18 15:21 | |
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Gatecoin, a cryptocurrency exchange based in Hong Kong, has announced that it is shutting down and entering liquidation following failed attempts at recovering lost funds stemming from a dispute with a past payment services provider.
2019-3-17 20:00 | |
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Nowhere does the phrase ‘misfortunes don’t come singly’ appear to be truer than in the case of Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Gatecoin which has been hacked, had its banking accounts frozen, lost funds to a payment processor and now faces liquidation all in a span of three years.
2019-3-15 15:34 | |
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Back in 2018, the Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, decided to sue the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange BitInstant. According to them, they have paid to him $750,000 to purchase Bitcoin, but they received 5,000 BTC less.
2019-3-9 20:26 | |
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Coinbase Refuses To Retrieve XRP Funds To Users That Send Funds With The Wrong Tag XRP has recently been added to Coinbase, one of the most popular digital asset platforms in the market. Users can now purchase the third largest digital asset directly from Coinbase.
2019-3-7 21:29 | |
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According to pseudonymous cryptocurrency researcher “I am Nomad” and a report from The Block, QuadrigaCX co-founder Michael Patryn traded large Bitcoin positions on BitMEX surpassing the tune of $8 million.
2019-3-8 20:36 | |
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Monero seems to be experiencing a bit of a bug problem as on March 4, 2019, the Ledger team warned about the use of the Nano S wallet after user funds were lost. The day before, Monero themselves had warned users about a bug that sends fake deposits to exchanges.
2019-3-7 11:00 | |
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A very high-profile court case involving cryptocurrencies is currently happening in Canada. No, we’re not talking about QuadrigaCX, the exchange which has lost all its funds after its owner died and took the private keys to the clients’ funds with him.
2019-3-6 23:10 | |
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QuadrigaCX, the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange embroiled in an ongoing mystery about the disappearance of $134 million in customers’ funds, has been granted an extension on its 30-day order for creditor protection.
2019-3-6 13:34 | |
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QuadrigaCX Is Still Looking For The Millions Of Crypto Assets That They’ve Lost, Earning Them Another Extension In Court QuadrigaCX’s court case for the retribution of funds to consumers has gone on for months, and they have already been granted a 30-day stay to protect them from creditors as they find the funds hidden amongst […]
2019-3-6 02:16 | |
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QuadrigaCX, the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange that purportedly lost $250 million CAD ($190 million USD) of customer funds when the… The post Quadriga Update: Wallet Empty, Unused Since April 2018, Says Ernst & Young appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-3-5 00:55 | |
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Every cryptocurrency user is exposed to a whole host of risks; most notably including the risk of loss of his or her funds. Such cryptocurrency loss may be associated with malice, as is true in the case of theft or hacks, or — as often is the case — an error on behalf of the user.
2019-3-4 17:51 | |
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Following weeks of speculation, QuadrigaCX’s court-appointed auditor has finally revealed the addresses for the struggling cryptocurrency exchange’s offline Bitcoin wallets. According to EY, which published its third report into the investigation on Friday, the cold storage wallets are empty – aside from a transfer of $400,000 worth in Bitcoin which was inadvertently sent last month – meaning $100 million in user funds continues to be unaccounted for.
2019-3-4 15:15 | |
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The cold wallets of QuadrigaCX, once the largest crypto exchange of Canada, have reportedly been found to be empty. According to Bloomberg, most of the Bitcoin funds from the exchange’s cold wallets were moved out in April 2018, more than 9 months before QuadrigaCX revealed it had lost $150 million in customer funds after its CEO Gerald Cotten passed away with sole control of the company’s wallets.
2019-3-4 13:21 | |
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The infamous QuadrigaCX case, where $190 million in user funds went missing following the death of Quadriga CEO Gerald Cotten,… The post $90M Worth of ETH Lost by QuadrigaCX Has Been Located – Is There Hope for Quadriga Users? appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-3-1 21:43 | |
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Most cyberattacks in the crypto space involve hackers finding a way around the security of crypto exchange platforms and gaining access to users’ funds. Last year saw the entry of a new breed of cyber extortionists that seems to be gaining ground, so much so that they were able to steal over $300,000 in bitcoin (BTC) tokens in 2018.
2019-3-1 18:10 | |
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The San Francisco crypto exchange Kraken has announced the company is offering a $100,000 reward in exchange for a solid lead toward finding the missing Quadrigacx coins. Kraken has explained the company wants to bring more “awareness and attention” to the case and hopefully locate some of the lost funds.
2019-3-1 08:46 | |
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The mystery surrounding the events that led to the loss of $190 Million in cryptocurrencies at the QuadrigaCX has led to multiple theories as to what might have happened at the exchange. Just days ago.
2019-3-2 08:26 | |
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Coinomi is facing an avalanche of criticism after being accused on February 27, 2019, of sending passphrases to googleapis. com, leading to the loss of over $70,000. Where’s the Money? In the past, crypto owners have lost funds due to errors made on the part of service providers such as the case of QuadrigaCX of forRead MoreRead More.
2019-3-1 04:00 | |
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Ahead of imminent relaunch, Cryptopia says it lost it at most around 10 percent of funds in its hack
2019-2-28 10:15 | |
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While the cryptocurrency industry is faced with problems of funds loss on exchanges, a Coinomi wallet user has reportedly lost $70,000 worth of cryptocurrency. The user who reported the loss on Reddit claims the theft was due to a vulnerability in the wallet which has probably gone unnoticed or was deliberately put there.
2019-2-27 20:57 | |
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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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QuadrigaCX is one of the major stories in the cryptocurrency industry right now, as the battle continues to return the funds that crypto and fiat investors have lost. In December, the CEO passed from complications associated with Crohn’s disease during international travel but signed everything into his wife’s name before his passing. It would be […]
2019-2-27 22:24 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex announced on Feb. 25 via a blog post that the U. S. government has handed over 27 BTC believed to be the proceeds of a hack in which the exchange lost almost 120,000 Bitcoins in a security breach in August 2016.
2019-2-26 19:29 | |
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According to an official statement published on February 25, 2019, Bitfinex has revealed that the United States government returned 27. 7 BTC (worth about $105,000 USD) to the exchange, as part of restitution for a hack that was effected on the exchange back in 2016.
2019-2-26 02:39 | |
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QuadrigaCX Exchange’s founder, Gerald Cotten, passed away more than two months ago, and with his death, the keys to the exchange’s cold storage allegedly went to the grave with him.
2019-2-26 22:21 | |
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Ebang, one of China’s top manufacturers of bitcoin miners, is planning to produce 400,000 mining machines in 2019. On February 22, 2019, Ebang reportedly announced this plan to expand dramatically throughout the fiscal year.
2019-2-26 22:09 | |
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Brian Armstrong, the CEO and co-founder of Coinbase, made a public statement speculating that QuadrigaCX—the exchange that lost $135 million in customer funds—may have used its CEO’s death as cover for earlier mismanagement.
2019-2-22 12:35 | |
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The recent scandal of QuadrigaCX in which Canada’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange lost $150 million worth of crypto shocked the financial space. It deteriorated the public image of the cryptocurrency sector overnight as analysts condemned the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars following the alleged death of CEO Gerald Cotten who had sole control over the company’s holdings and user funds.
2019-2-17 15:46 | |
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QuadrigaCX, a Canadian crypto exchange, has been receiving a great deal of heat lately for lost funds. And worse yet, it could be the case that the company’s deceased founder may have stored the exchange’s private keys in a safety deposit box.
2019-2-17 04:39 | |
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According to the latest court documents in the ongoing QuadrigaCX case, the exchange sent roughly $470,000 CAD (approximately $355, 000 USD) worth of bitcoin from a hot wallet to a cold-storage wallet on February 6, 2019.
2019-2-13 03:56 | |
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Ever since the security breach of Coincheck in January 2018, formerly the largest crypto exchange in Japan, local authorities have imposed a stricter process in granting licenses to trading platforms that support Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
2019-2-11 00:14 | |
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Canada’s largest digital asset exchange QuadrigaCX has claimed to have lost more than $136 million worth of crypto in cold wallets controlled by its CEO Gerald Cotten. In an official affidavit filed with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court by Jennifer Robertson, the widow of Cotten, Robertson claimed Cotten passed away in India with the sole control over user funds.
2019-2-8 13:16 | |
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On February 4, 2019, blockchain tech company Blockstream announced the development of a “proof of reserves” tool to standardize the authenticity of exchanges’ crypto reserves.
2019-2-7 01:01 | |
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A company with legal problems; a mysterious death; missing customer funds. The QuadrigaCX story could have come straight from the pen of a hack Hollywood writer. Well now, the internet’s faithful crypto-investigators, claim to have found evidence of transactions initiated from the supposedly ‘lost’ cold wallets.
2019-2-4 20:00 | |
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Some of the $150 million from the “lost” reserves of QuadrigaCX, Canada’s largest crypto exchange company, might be on the move. It was reported that Gerald Cotton, the CEO of the company who passed away, was the sole signatory and executor to the funds.
2019-2-4 18:44 | |
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According to several reports, some funds from the missing $150 million holdings of Canada’s biggest crypto exchange QuadrigaCX could be moving. On Saturday, CCN reported that QuadrigaCX lost more than $190 million in funds stored in both crypto and fiat as the CEO, who had sole control over user funds passed away.
2019-2-4 20:50 | |
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Canada’s largest crypto exchange QuadrigaCX lost more than $190 million worth of user funds and is unable to reimburse its users. As of Jan. 31, 2019, there were roughly 115,000 users with balances signed up on the exchange, with $70 million CAD in fiat and $180 million CAD in crypto owed overall, according to the […] The post Movie script scenario: QuadrigaCX CEO might have faked his own death in India appeared first on CaptainAltcoin.
2019-2-3 16:18 | |
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Canada’s largest crypto exchange QuadrigaCX lost more than $190 million worth of user funds and is unable to reimburse its users. As CCN reported on February 1, the founder and CEO of QuadrigaCX passed away in India with sole control over the company’s cold wallets containing more than $150 million in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, and $40 million in cash stored with a third party.
2019-2-3 11:48 | |
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QuadrigaCX, the largest bitcoin exchange in Canada, has lost $190 million worth of crypto after it lost access to its cold storage wallets. An affidavit filed on January 31 with the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia revealed that $190 million in Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Cash SV, Bitcoin Gold, Litecoin, and Ethereum were lost.
2019-2-2 00:30 | |
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Customers foolish enough to leave funds at the Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX have a lot to be worried about. According to a post by the company’s board of directors, the platform has lost access to the digital assets it held in cold storage.
2019-2-1 02:00 | |
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An Italian judge has reportedly ordered Francesco Firano, founder of shady cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail, to repay the $170 million worth of cryptocurrency that went “missing” early last year.
2019-1-28 18:25 | |
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Nearly one year after Nano suffered massive catastrophe as cryptocurrency exchange that held most of NANO coins on their servers, Bitgrail got hacked. Bitgrail announced that the exchange had lost 17 million NANO (approximately $ 170 million).
2019-1-28 13:31 | |
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Every week we seem to read another new story about yet another cryptocurrency exchange hack or scam in which users’ funds are stolen. But this week, a South Korean exchange has flipped the narrative on its head.
2019-1-22 13:56 | |
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The 2018 bear run has dealt a huge blow to the crypto world. Investors lost faith and Wall Street pulled out. Entire startups with good ideas collapsed, catalyzed by tumbling BTC prices. However, various venture groups continue to seek financing since bear markets are the best time to buy. 1confirmation Wants Investor Funds The revelation […]
2019-1-18 23:06 | |
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According to a press release (Jan. 16, 2018), BitPay saw increased growth in 2018 including a 78 percent increase in workforce and a 7 percent decrease in funds lost to error. Success Story BitPay apparently had a very fruitful 2018 despite the bitcoin price slump in the later part of the year.
2019-1-19 21:00 | |
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The long-running bearish sentiment of cryptocurrency market has claimed another victim. Giga Watt, a US-based Bitcoin mining firm, sent an email to its customers, stating that it has decided to close down operations.
2019-1-18 18:06 | |
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U.S. law firms Silver Miller and Levi & Korsinsky have filed a lawsuit against altcoin Nano, demanding a “rescue fork” to compensate lost funds
2019-1-9 23:53 | |
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