2019-4-22 15:05 |
Japanese crypto exchange Zaif, which was hacked for $60 million last year, is reinstating all services after being acquired by investment firm Fisco. origin »
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The virtual currency exchange Zaif will be transferring the business from Tech Bureau to Fisco Digital Asset Group (FDAG). The Japanese exchange was hacked last year and stopped its operations in the market.
2019-4-21 19:28 | |
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Bithumb, one of South Korea’s leading and more controversial crypto-exchanges, has been in the news for quite a while now. Just a few weeks ago, the exchange was hacked, contributing to the loss of millions in XRP and EOS.
2019-4-15 11:30 | |
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Bithumb, one of the most popular crypto exchanges in the world and in South Korea, has been attacked once again. The company blocked withdrawal and deposit services for a short period of time and updated the community on the matter in a blog post.
2019-4-1 08:00 | |
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Bithumb temporarily suspended deposit and withdrawal services on its platform. The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange appears to be the latest victim of another hack with $15 million worth of EOS allegedly stolen by cybercriminals.
2019-3-30 12:30 | |
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30,789 ETH Transfered from Cryptopia Hack Wallet to Unknown Wallet Cryptopia has had a rough year so far. A major hack and a longtime delay in relaunching their services have undoubtedly shaken investors and the staff themselves.
2019-3-29 08:52 | |
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The Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx has announced a security breach to its users via its official Telegram channel. In the message, a company administrator revealed that the hackers stole assets belonging to both the exchange and its users.
2019-3-27 22:58 | |
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DragonEx, a crypto exchange based in Singapore, said on Tuesday that its platform has been hacked and an undisclosed amount of user funds was lost. In its official Telegram account, the DragonEx team said that the exchange was hacked on March 24 and it alerted the authorities in Estonia, Thailand, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
2019-3-27 17:03 | |
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Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.
2019-3-20 16:49 | |
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Cryptopia, the exchange that was hacked at the beginning of the year, is now getting prepared to re-launch its trading platform. On March 10, Cryptopia announced that users will now be able to cancel their standing orders.
2019-3-12 04:21 | |
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This week, as usual, was full of activities, most of it focused on the future of cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency adoption. Top among the stories were predictions on the future price of Bitcoin which have been mostly bullish.
2019-2-17 11:13 | |
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Two “prominent professional hacking groups” are responsible for the majority of publicly reported hacks of cryptocurrency exchanges and other cryptocurrency organizations, concludes a report published by blockchain data analytics firm Chainalysis this week.
2019-2-2 01:45 | |
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Cryptopia, a New Zealand-base cryptocurrency exchange, has suspended all services and gone offline after reporting a major hack that resulted in significant losses, the company announced in a tweet on January 15, 2019.
2019-1-16 06:00 | |
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Almost a year after being hacked and losing 58-billion-yen worth of NEM, Japanese digital currency exchange Coincheck has just passed a significant obstacle in its way. The Financial Services Agency of Japan permitted it to run a digital currency exchange platform last Friday officially.
2019-1-14 21:54 | |
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It has been over a year since Japan’s Financial Services Agency last approved a cryptocurrency exchange to legally operate in the country. Coincheck, which was hacked early last year, has become the 17th fully-registered crypto exchange in the country.
2019-1-12 05:10 | |
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It has been over a year since Japan’s Financial Services Agency last approved a cryptocurrency exchange to legally operate in the country. Coincheck, which was hacked early last year, has become the 17th fully-registered crypto exchange in the country.
2019-1-12 05:10 | |
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Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has purportedly approved a cryptocurrency exchange operating license for hacked crypto exchange Coincheck
2018-12-20 13:08 | |
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While most crypto investors are shooting for the moon, Blockstream is focused on things a bit closer to Earth: in the outermost layer of its atmosphere, to be exact.
2018-12-18 00:31 | |
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In recent crypto exchange news, Coincheck has successfully reinstated deposits and trading services for all cryptocurrencies that were live on the exchange before it was hacked in January. Bhex, an exchange founded by Huobi’s former chief technology officer, has announced that it will start operations at the end of the month, while 1,452.
2018-11-27 22:20 | |
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Monex Group, the Internet broker which purchased the hacked exchange Coincheck in April, announced on November 26 that the exchange had resumed depositing and purchasing services for XRP (XRP) and Factom (FCT).
2018-11-26 12:57 | |
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Despite a prolonged cryptocurrency bear market and regulatory uncertainties, OKCoin, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, is expanding to Latin America launching a new exchange platform headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2018-11-15 17:45 | |
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Crypto scammers and hackers have no shame at all. They are so selfish and criminal that they do not even spare important services in order to make a quick buck. For instance, we have recently reported a new case of hackers using a ransomware on an East Coast water utility company to demand Bitcoin. The […]
2018-11-7 01:55 | |
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Monex Group recently announced that cryptocurrency exchange platform, Coincheck, has resumed account opening and the trading of a few virtual currencies. Details of the Announcement In a bid to gradually resume services, a Japan-based online brokerage company, Monex, which acquired the hacked digital currency exchange, Coincheck, back in April, announced that it recommenced new account […] The post Cryptocurrency Exchange Platform ‘Coincheck’ Resumes Account Opening and Trading of Few Virtual Currencies appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2018-10-31 17:03 | |
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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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Japanese crypto exchange Zaif has concluded a business transfer agreement with another regulated crypto exchange in Japan. Fisco Cryptocurrency Exchange will take over all of Zaif’s services and will be responsible for repaying users who lost their coins when Zaif was hacked last month.
2018-10-13 00:00 | |
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Tech Bureau, the company behind recently hacked cryptocurrency exchange Zaif have been issued a third (and probably final) warning by the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA). The warning has come in the form of a Business Improvement Order, one that stipulates certain improvements that must be made to a financial based business otherwise they risk having their license to trade revoked.
2018-9-25 21:30 | |
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When Tokyo-based Mt. Gox got hacked to the tune of 650,000 bitcoin in 2014, Japan learned early on the tough lessons of cryptocurrency theft. Yet, to this day, despite the country’s ongoing efforts to educate investors and ramp up oversight of crypto exchanges, it still feels the sting of hackers.
2018-9-21 23:45 | |
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Another cryptocurrency heist has shaken Japan. This time, 6. 7 billion yen ($60 million USD) worth of company and user funds have vanished from Japanese cryptocurrency exchange platform Zaif.
2018-9-21 19:30 | |
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Bitcoin is in the news, and we’ve all seen the stories about early investors who’ve made millions and driven away in new lambos. So it’s only natural that people who haven’t invested already are wondering if they should.
2018-9-21 19:18 | |
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In the Ontario province of Canada, holds the town of Midland which has a population of more than 16,000 people and has recently had its computer systems hacked and infected with ransom malware. The town of Midland has come to conclusion that they are going to meet the hackers wants and pay them (as per their demands) in Bitcoin, in order to get the computer system up and running again.
2018-9-12 13:00 | |
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In mid-June 2018 Bithumb was hacked for $31 million worth of cryptocurrency and subsequently halted all withdrawal and deposit services. On Aug. 4, however, Bithumb resumed the services for 10 specific cryptocurrencies.
2018-8-7 12:00 | |
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The first piece of blockchain-related tech from Telegram was shown off last week, but experts are claiming that its just waiting to be hacked. Telegram Passport is meant to be a secure way of managing identity documents.
2018-8-3 18:08 | |
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Tokyo-based financial services conglomerate, Monex Group, Inc – the acquisitor of the hacked Coincheck cryptocurrency exchange – is primed to launch its Bitcoin trading service in the United States through one of its subsidiaries, TradeStation, according to a financial briefing published by the firm on July 27, 2018.
2018-7-30 08:00 | |
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ETF’s are back in the news this week with the Winklevoss twins of Gemini getting rejected again, while investment firm Direxion was delayed till September on a final decision.
2018-7-30 18:41 | |
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The exchange has offered users some options to recover their cryptocurrencies. Japan Confirms Entrance Into the Crypto Space Services Resumed Coinrail reported that it was hacked on June 10 with an estimated damage of about 45 billion won (~US$40 million).
2018-7-17 01:40 | |
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MyEtherWallet [MEW], one of the most successful services on the internet for managing cryptocurrencies, has suffered a security breach yet again. MyEtherWallet’s tweet | Source: Twitter The company reported that Hola, a widely-used VPN service, was compromised for a period of five hours.
2018-7-11 04:07 | |
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Coinbase continues to grow with their new high-end investment product Coinbase Custody, while Binance had to run a system update following some issues with its Syscoin wallet API.
2018-7-7 23:19 | |
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On July 3, 2018, Binance suspended all trading and withdrawal services due to "irregular" Syscoin (SYS) trades carried out "from a number of API users. " The exchange has since resumed all activities, according to a blog post.
2018-7-5 20:11 | |
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Last week, Bithumb – one of South Korea’s largest digital currency exchanges – was hacked for $31 million in various cryptocurrencies. Announced on June 28, 2018, Bithumb confirmed the recovery of nearly half the stolen funds.
2018-6-29 10:57 | |
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The cryptocurrency space is filled with crime. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are used everyday for the dealing of contraband goods and prohibited services. Cryptocurrency Exchanges are being hacked and robbed of millions at an increasing rate, money laundering efforts are being aided by various coins, and ICO scams continue to cast doubt over the […] The post Experts say Cryptocurrency Crimes will be on the Rise this Year appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2018-6-24 21:22 | |
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Following the announcement by South Korean crypto exchange Coinrail that it has been hacked, a local publication reported that some banks had identified suspicious transactions at the exchange and stopped providing services to company months before the incident.
2018-6-13 03:40 | |
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Coinspeaker Japanese Crypto Exchange Accuses Binance of Facilitating $9 Million Money LaunderingAfter hackers stole $9. 4 million from Zaif in 2018, its new owner Fisco has now sued Binance for facilitating money laundering.
Японская криптовалютная компания Fisco обвинила биржу Binance в предоставлении своих сервисов для отмывания денег через криптовалюты на сумму более $9 млн. В понедельник, 14 сентября, Fisco подала иск в США.
Fisco, formerly Zaif, is suing Binance for "aiding and abetting" the laundering of some of the $60 million stolen in 2018.
Eterbase, a Slovak cryptocurrency exchange, revealed Thursday that it had been hacked for $5. 4 million. Cyber-criminals broke into six hot wallets containing bitcoin, ethereum, algo, ripple, tezos, and tron, stealing everything, it said.
This week’s news from Japan includes a blockchain proposal from the Federation of Economic Affairs, Rakuten Wallet margin account registrations and more
Coinspeaker Bitpoint Exchange Lost $32 Million in Cryptocurrency Amid Recent Hacker AttackJapanese licensed cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint has become a new victim of hackers and lost $32 million in crypto assets in the recent attack.
Following G20 meetings, where Japan led several discussions regarding crypto assets, the country’s top financial regulator told news. Bitcoin. com that 110 crypto exchanges are now interested in launching in Japan.