2019-10-1 20:00 |
The Seoul court ruled that a hacking is not the responsibility of an exchange but a transfer of funds is.
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2019-10-1 20:00 |
The Seoul court ruled that a hacking is not the responsibility of an exchange but a transfer of funds is.
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Anthony Tyler Nashatka and Elliot Gunton have been charged by the Northern District of California attorney’s office. They have been found guilty of hacking the EtherDelta back in December 2017. The EtherDelta is an exchange platform for cryptocurrency that is based on the Ethereum blockchain.
2019-9-23 17:54 | |
UK police are set to auction around $662,000 (dly seized the stash from a criminal who had illegally sold personal data and provided hacking services in exchange for cryptocurrency. Other assets to be auctioned include Ethereum, Ripple (XRP), and other unnamed tokens.
2019-9-23 14:48 | |
The U. S. Treasury has announced sanctions targeting North Korean cybercrime syndicates responsible for over $2 billion in bitcoin exchange hacks. OFAC Sanctions North Korean Bitcoin Hacking Syndicate The U.
2019-9-15 15:00 | |
City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) and Manhattan D. A’s office arrested a suspected hacker for allegedly hacking into a world-famous recording artist’s websites and cloud-based accounts illegally.
2019-9-13 19:30 | |
The exchange announced it was shutting its operations in a website post dated August 9 that was titled ‘Prixbitend’. The startup said it has failed to overcome its financial difficulties and suspended its cryptocurrency trading services.
2019-8-21 21:09 | |
19-year-old Elliot Gunton of Mounteney Close, UK, has pleaded guilty to supplying crypto hacking services and online personal data in exchange for cryptocurrency.
2019-8-17 23:45 | |
CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceOAX Foundation, a Hong Kong-based entity set up to develop and promote digital asset trading, has today released the code for its Layer 2 Exchange (L2X) protocol, marking the completion of a major milestone for the project.
2019-8-12 18:15 | |
Coinbase’s security team has revealed that it managed to stop a complex phishing attack that sought to extract user private keys and passwords. In an official blog post the crypto exchange giant revealed that the incident involved the exploitation of two 0-day vulnerabilities on the Mozilla Firefox browser. According to the blog post, the first […]
2019-8-9 21:17 | |
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has detailed how it was targeted by, and foiled, "a sophisticated, highly targeted, thought out attack."
2019-8-9 12:01 | |
A confidential United Nations report has revealed that North Korea raked in approximately $2 billion by hacking cryptocurrency exchanges as well as mainstream financial institutions, according to Reuters.
2019-8-7 14:24 | |
Following the high profile hacking of Japanese cryptocurrency exchange, Bitpoint, the company has announced another $2. 3 million of cryptocurrency missing. The Icing On The Bitpoint Cake As if it wasn’t already bad enough to have had $32 million of cryptocurrency stolen by hackers, Bitpoint has just disclosed that an additional $2.
2019-7-15 14:00 | |
Ransomware is not a new technological concept, but it is a big problem in the cryptocurrency industry in the last few years. Rather than directly taking over an exchange, these hackers go after unrelated companies, demanding to be paid out in Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency.
2019-7-12 21:31 | |
The hacking attempts at cryptocurrency exchanges are becoming more and more prevalent as yet another exchange lost over $32 million USD worth of cryptocurrency funds. The hack on Japan’s BitPoint led to the indefinite closure of withdrawal, deposit and trading services on the platform leading to several questions on the security of the exchange. This […]
2019-7-12 16:38 | |
Ring in the hacking bells once again. BitPoint, a licensed Japanese cryptocurrency exchange, has been hacked, leaving over 7 billion yen [$64. 6 million USD] compromised. Japan is the latest to join the list of countries with crypto-exchanges subjected to cyber-attacks, joining the likes of South Korea, Canada, and New Zealand.
2019-7-12 09:30 | |
Serial entrepreneur Jed McCaleb, and creator of the now-defunct Mt. Gox, is facing a lawsuit over his handling of the failed cryptocurrency exchange. Former Mt. Gox traders Joseph Jones and Peter Steinmetz allege McCaleb was “fraudulent” and “negligent” in his representation of the exchange, partly leading to the loss of their Bitcoin when it was hacked in the notorious hacking incident from 2014, CoinDesk reports.
2019-6-26 14:47 | |
Two Israeli brothers have reportedly been arrested for allegedly hacking the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange and engaging in other crypto-related phishing scams
2019-6-24 20:26 | |
South Korea’s crypto exchange giant, Bithumb and its top officials have been prosecuted on charges of failure to prevent hacking attacks and leakage of private data. Prosecutors are accusing the crypto exchange platform of leaking sensitive financial data on around 31,000 of its customers.
2019-6-22 00:33 | |
Russian Hackers Linked To Coincheck 2018 Hacking A new report of the investigation into the hacked Coincheck exchange has revealed that the personal computers of the exchanges’ staff workers have allegedly been established to have been compromised by a virus originating from a Russian hacker syndicate.
2019-6-17 20:30 | |
North Korean hackers have made a phishing attempt on users of the South Korean crypto exchange Upbit. News correspondents in Korea broke this development on May 29, 2019, detailing the ploy to steal Upbit users’ information.
2019-6-1 00:54 | |
A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-6-4 23:41 | |
A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-5-31 23:41 | |
The liquidators responsible for New Zealand-based Cryptopia have released the latest update in the continuing fallout from the exchange’s hacking incident in January. However, the statement is unlikely to appease users who are still left waiting for their lost holdings to be refunded.
2019-5-27 15:09 | |
Cryptopia Limited was hacked multiple times in the first quarter of 2019. The shareholders of Cryptopia have decided to file for bankruptcy in a Chapter 15 case in New York. The hacking of the Cryptopia exchange made headlines in January after a massive attack took $16 million from the exchange. The exchange was the host […]
2019-5-25 04:41 | |
Avoid Hacking Your Funds With Binance Less than a month ago the largest cryptocurrency exchange was the object of a hacking of seven thousand bitcoins, which at the time of the computer crime, amounted to almost $ 40 million dollars.
2019-5-22 21:21 | |
Binance exchange BNB token continues to amaze with steady growth. This growth wawsn’t broken even after the exchange hacking, perhaps undertaken by competitors. How token becomes cryptocurrency According to some analysts, a moderate reaction to scandals confirms the reasonable stability of cryptomarket.
2019-5-22 12:54 | |
Cryptopia, a cryptocurrency exchange with headquarters in New Zealand, has suspended trading services and released a press statement on May 15 stating that it is in liquidation. The latest development comes less than six months after the exchange lost millions through hacking.
2019-5-15 17:59 | |
By CCN: It may not have sounded the death knell immediately but the January hacking of New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia changed everything forever. Now the crypto exchange which lost NZD$ 23 million (approximately $15 million) in the security breach five months ago has appointed liquidators.
2019-5-15 13:49 | |
The cryptocurrency market has recently shown that it has matured. First, the Bitfinex scandal and recently the hacking of the largest cryptocurrency exchange, have been proofs that have shown the main asset that solid support has been created above five thousand and eight hundred, as many analysts predicted. At the time of writing, the market […]
2019-5-9 09:05 | |
Binance hack resulted in theft of 7,000 BTC after “unscheduled server maintenance” was announced. This hacking marks the fourth hack of a major exchange in 2019. Reports this week have revealed a major hacking attack against Binance, which has been called a “large scale security breach.
2019-5-9 00:46 | |
By CCN. com: Bitcoin bull and the CEO of digital assets merchant bank Galaxy Digital, Michael Novogratz, has warned that the hacking suffered by the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance could invite more investor scrutiny.
2019-5-8 16:43 | |
Ahead of one of the most anticipated initial public offerings (IPOs) of 2019, Slack Technologies Inc. in its filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), warned investors that it’s a prime target for nation-scale hacking groups.
2019-4-30 20:00 | |
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2019-4-23 13:48 | |
Top Crypto Exchanges Come Together In An Effort To Retrieve BitHumb’s Stolen Funds As many of our regular readers may recall, late last month, leading South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb fell victim to a hacking scandal which saw the company lose a little over USD $18 million worth of assets. However, as soon as this […]
2019-4-19 20:14 | |
An intelligence branch of the Russian government used bitcoin to fund its cyberwarfare efforts to interfere with the 2016 U. S. presidential election, the Mueller Report claims.
2019-4-19 23:21 | |
North Korean hackers with the backing of Pyongyang are targeting cryptocurrency exchange platforms as part of efforts to raise funding for the country’s nuclear weapons program. Wired reports that several international cybersecurity experts believe a hacking syndicate based in the country is also responsible for attacks against banks across the globe.
2019-4-5 13:00 | |
Security breaches to online cryptocurrency exchange platforms is not new. Infact, many hackers specifically devote their time, energy and resources in targeting exchange with big assets to attack and this act calls for improved awareness and cryptographic innovations that would protect blockchain platforms from such malicious attacks. As encrypted as the blockchain system is, it […]
2019-4-5 01:05 | |
Coinbase is taking the threat of criminals hacking activity seriously, and to prove it, the exchange revealed the details of its crypto insurance policy program this week. It’s held a hot wallet policy with a $255 million limit since 2013.
2019-4-3 14:26 | |
Coinbase is taking the threat of criminals hacking activity seriously, and to prove it, the exchange revealed the details of its crypto insurance policy program this week. It’s held a hot wallet policy with a $255 million limit since 2013.
2019-4-3 14:26 | |
The South-Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has been in the news for the past few days after a hack contributed to the loss of millions of EOS and XRP. The hacking episode, however, came to light only after Primitive Ventures’ Dovey Wan pointed it out on Twitter.
2019-4-2 14:00 | |
This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Tang. The Chinese security service provider 360 Security has issued a warning that a large number of crypto exchanges have been targeted by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus and that the number is still rising after the recent hacks of crypto exchanges DragonEx, Etbox and BiKi.
2019-4-2 21:54 | |
Cryptocurrency exchanges have been subjected to numerous hacking attacks since its inception and most of the times even if the lost funds are traced, the consumers never get back their funds as the attacked exchange goes bust and files for bankruptcy leaving the consumers in a state of limbo. A recent report from statis group […]
2019-4-1 18:10 | |
Twitter User Reports Major Hacking on Bithumb As Over 3 Million EOS Leaves Exchange Bithumb has already dealt with a major hack in its lifetime, but it looks like history is repeating itself. Whale Alert, a Twitter page that is dedicated to announcing major transactions on the blockchain, announced a transfer of 3,069,400 EOS, which […]
2019-3-30 10:22 | |
A maintenance period and signs of assets moving to new addresses sparked fears that CoinBene was the latest exchange to fall victim to hackers.
2019-3-28 12:29 | |
The fully digital and nascent nature of the crypto markets has made exchanges major targets of nefarious actors, and news of exchanges being hacked has plagued the markets since their early days, starting with the notorious Mt.
2019-3-28 01:00 | |
As anxiety grows around every new twist and turn in the ongoing QuadrigaCX drama, along with extensive QuadrigaCX media coverage, Canada’s mainstream media has been calling on the government to bring in better oversight and regulation of cryptocurrency businesses, especially cryptocurrency exchanges.
2019-3-20 18:42 | |
The U.N. Security Council has heard that North Korea uses cyberattacks and blockchain technology to evade economic sanctions and obtain foreign currency. Through hacking, the reclusive Republic has raked in around $670 million in foreign exchange and cryptocurrency, a panel of experts told the Security Council’s North Korea sanctions committee, ahead of the council’s annual […] The post UN Panel: North Korea Hacked $571M From Asian Crypto Exchanges appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-3-9 23:25 | |
North Korea has obtained some $670 million in virtual and fiat currency in a bid to bypass economic sanctions put in place as a result of its nuclear and missile programs. The country amassed the funds through cyber attacks, Nikkei says citing an expert panel reporting to the UN Security Council.
2019-3-8 14:24 | |
In an attempt to rectify the ongoing public relations nightmare for Coinbase, CEO Brian Armstrong has stated that former members of Hacking Team will be transitioned out of the company. Lessons Learned? Earlier in February, Coinbase, the leading US-based cryptocurrency exchange, announced the acquisition of blockchain surveillance startup Neutrino.
2019-3-7 05:00 | |
One Coinbase executive recently said that its partners were “selling client data to outside sources,” stoking privacy concerns. Controversy has been brewing since the exchange’s acquisition of blockchain analytics company Neutrino on Feb.
2019-3-7 03:43 | |