2020-7-21 22:11 |
Last week's Twitter hack was a shock to the company. It shouldn’t have been. Scams have been growing more sophisticated for years.
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2020-7-21 22:11 |
Last week's Twitter hack was a shock to the company. It shouldn’t have been. Scams have been growing more sophisticated for years.
Similar to Notcoin - Blum - Airdrops In 2024
The biggest hack in years and by far the most public hack of them all has speculation swirling on who done it and more importantly, why? Twitter has revealed access...
2020-7-17 00:26 | |
Cyber-thieves from the Bitfinex hack of four years ago continue to cash out, this time transferring the equivalent of $4. 1 million in bitcoin to an unknown wallet address. Crypto tracking tool Whale Alert reports that hackers moved 416 bitcoin (BTC) on June 11.
2020-6-12 10:22 | |
Another $800,000 worth of bitcoin from the Bitfinex hack of four years ago has been moved to an unknown wallet. Whale Alert reports that hackers transferred 77. 64 bitcoin (BTC) on Tuesday, which amounts to $797,000 at the time the alert was issued.
2020-6-3 16:45 | |
Hackers breached crypto exchange Upbit in November 2019, making off with $49 million in crypto — yesterday they tried to sell stolen Ethereum on Binance With so many exchanges being breached in the past few years, Binance and other major exchanges have resolved to freeze any hack-related funds sent to their platforms.
2020-5-15 19:22 | |
Nearly two years ago, the Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck suffered from a major hack. During that incident, millions of dollars worth of NEM currency were taken by criminals. Despite several investigations, not all of that money was retrieved.
2020-3-15 06:00 | |
At the end of last month, Google's elite security analyst team Project Zero released a report on 14 different iPhone security flaws that were secretly exploited by hackers for at least two years.
2019-9-9 02:54 | |
Researchers from Google have uncovered what appears to be a concentrated malware campaign targeting iPhones for at least two years. Thankfully, this may be over now, although they warn it’s possible there are others that are yet to be seen.
2019-8-30 10:02 | |
Bitfinex’s $1 bln hack suddenly becomes a hot topic three years later after a set of mysterious transactions
2019-6-7 18:51 | |
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 | |
By CCN: In a brazen but unsurprising move last week, Democrats issued a subpoena to accounting firm Mazars USA for eight years’ worth of Donald Trump’s financial records. It should thus come as no surprise that Barack Obama judicial appointee U.
2019-5-21 05:56 | |
Risk and instability are two terms that are often associated with the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The security of Bitcoin [BTC] has often been under the spotlight as over the years, various incidents such as the Mt.
2019-5-17 02:30 | |
One of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance recently witnessed a security breach in their network, enabling hackers to perpetrate a 7000 BTC heist. The hackers also stole millions of 2FA codes and a large number of API keys.
2019-5-9 17:00 | |
The Bitcoin market looks all good even after news of Bitfinex’s scandalous dealings with Tether. As has been the case for years, many would have expected such bad news to affect the crypto market, especially Bitcoin.
2019-5-8 22:26 | |
A wallet linked to the Bitfinex hack of 2016 has seen funds move for the first time in years.
2019-4-26 14:53 | |
Student Goes To Jail For 10 Years After Siphoning $7.5 Million USD Worth in With SIM Swapping Scenario SIM swapping has become a huge problem in the United States. People clone the SIM cards of the victims and then use it to hack their phones. The practice is known as SIM swapping and it is […]
2019-4-24 00:27 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Two years ago, in May of 2016, one of Hong Kong’s cryptocurrency exchange firms publicly disclosed that it was the target of a carefully planned hack. Gatecoin, the exchange, was so badly hit that it lost ETH 185,000 and BTC 250 which was worth $2 million. Now, this figure is over $25 million when adjusted […]
2019-3-29 03:45 | |
Troubled cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox is finally inching closer to settling its debt with creditors, some five years after it was hacked. According to new documents published by Mt. Gox‘s trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi (aka Tokyo Whale, as he’s known in cryptocurrency circles), a decision has been made with regards to creditor’s claims – they’ve been approved or disapproved – and the Tokyo District Court has been notified.
2019-3-21 15:32 | |
The Tokyo District Court has found Mark Karpeles, the former head of now-defunct Bitcoin exchange platform Mt. Gox, guilty of record tampering but innocent on other charges related to embezzlement and breach of trust.
2019-3-16 22:01 | |
Gatecoin Cryptocurrency Exchange Calls It Quits After Six Years. Gatecoin, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchanged founded in 2013 by Aurelien Menant, a former investment banking expert, has announced it is now bankrupt and would end operations with immediate effect, according to a statement by the firm on March 14, 2019. End Of The Road For […]
2019-3-15 23:22 | |
Seminal cryptocurrency exchange Gatecoin is dead. It’s finally going into liquidation, years after it lost $2 million in cryptocurrency belonging to its customers. Gatecoin was one of the first regulated digital asset exchange services to spring up.
2019-3-14 14:24 | |
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 | |
The tragedy that is Mt. Gox is one that many cryptocurrency investors know as one of the worst cases of theft. A massive hack in 2011 ended up collapsing it a few years later, resulting in an 850,000 BTC loss, which was about $460 million back then. Now, it would be valued at approximately $3 […]
2019-2-13 08:42 | |
A few years ago, Mt. Gox was one of the most powerful and respected crypto exchange companies. However, after suffering a hack, they have closed operations and filed for bankruptcy. However, the process of shutting down operations isn’t always that simple as a number of people, including their former clients, are trying to get their […]
2019-2-3 19:48 | |
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 | |
India, the land of one of the oldest civilizations, has existed for thousands of years. To survive for so long, one needs great tenacity and a certain acceptance of fate. There is also an ability that is colloquially known as ‘jugaad,' the closest English equivalent is a hack. So when Banks in India started to […]
2019-1-17 20:01 | |
In 2009, when Satoshi Nakamoto invented a new age digital currency by writing the code for the first ever cryptocurrency termed as Bitcoin, the entire world was perplexed of its acceptance. Followed by the emergence of many other new cryptocurrencies since last 10 years, this form of digital money has witnessed diverse eye-popping incidents including […] The post Hack: Cryptocurrency Trends & Predictions for 2019 appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2019-1-14 22:29 | |
If you frequent YouTube then you have probably heard of PewDiePie. It is the most popular channel on the network attracting billions of visitors every day – it has attracted over 19 billion visitors over the past 5 years.
2018-12-5 19:57 | |
If you’ve stayed at a Starwood hotel in the past few years, it’s time to buy some credit monitoring. The Marriott International-owned hotel brand has reported a massive hack that saw the details of over 500 million customers accessed by an unauthorized party.
2018-11-30 19:34 | |
Over the last few years, particularly after the dawn of the Mt. Gox hack in 2014, the crypto market’s reputation has been badly tarnished. The market is now closely associated with hacks, scams, fraud, and other several criminal activities that are on par with the overly exaggerated Wild West in the early seventeenth century.
2018-10-10 17:14 | |
Think you know the ins-and-outs of bitcoin? Test yourself with 30 questions that grill you on Bitcoin’s history, technology and politics. The 30 questions are split up into three segments ranging from novice to intermediate to expert, and cover a wide range of topics across the Bitcoin landscape.
2018-9-26 02:13 | |
The continuous news of hacking of cryptocurrency exchanges has grown this year when compared to previous years in the cryptocurrency industry. It started with Coincheck a cryptocurrency exchange in Japan where about $500 million worth of NEM token was stolen and now another cryptocurrency exchange in Japan, Zaif exchange in the news after a hack […] The post Japan’s Zaif Crypto Exchange loses about $59.7 Million in Fresh Hack appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2018-9-20 13:43 | |
In what it deems a first for both enforcement actions, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is charging two entities with registration failures.
2018-9-12 23:36 | |
A new report from Kaspersky Labs reveals that North Korean hackers are now using their ‘Lazarus’ trojan to hack cryptocurrency traders and exchanges. Typically used for conducting political interference, “Lazarus has been a major threat actor in the APT arena for several years,” Securelist reports.
2018-8-25 23:11 | |
On July 10, 2018, news broke that cryptocurrency wallet and decentralized exchange Bancor was hit with a hack. A wallet the Bancor team used to update the protocol’s smart contracts was infiltrated, and the $23.
2018-8-3 19:24 | |
The owner and operator of two defunct crypto platforms has pleaded guilty to charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice. Jon E. Montroll was arrested in February after it emerged that he had used his platforms to steal from investors, operated an unregistered securities exchange, and lied about having knowledge of a hack on […]
2018-7-26 23:00 | |
For the third time in two years, Bithumb, South Korea’s biggest crypto exchange, was hacked in June 2018. SK, the country’s telecom giant, stated that the hack was likely caused by APT attacks. The post Korea’s Telecom Giant: Country’s Biggest Crypto Exchange Hack Caused by APT appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2018-7-9 17:00 | |
Andreessen Horowitz has launched a $300 million crypto fund dedicated to investing in cryptocurrencies and other blockchain-related projects. The fund, named a16z crypto, signals that the firm is diving deeper into the cryptocurrency space to grow its existing portfolio, which includes digital currency exchange Coinbase.
2018-6-27 21:34 | |
OPINION: Earlier today, top Korean cryptocurrency exchange platform Bithumb was hacked for a loss of about $30 million. While this has been the buzz in the crypto world, many have forgotten that another infamous hack occurred on this day.
2018-6-21 13:02 | |