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2021-2-15 18:55 |
The exchange said it's working to bring services back online following the attack. origin »
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Cross-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) THORChain has become the latest company to suffer an exploit, with details of a multi-million attack. The exchange was hacked for $4,000 ETH (about $5 million).
2021-7-16 16:20 | |
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EXMO, a leading crypto exchange in Europe, suffered its second attack in less than two months reporting a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack on Monday. The exchange has since started to improve its anti-DDOS attack software, warning users the exchange’s services “may be unavailable” during the update, a tweet sent out today reads.
2021-2-17 22:56 | |
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Russia-headquartered cryptocurrency exchange, Livecoin, recently suffered a very strong, very damaging hacking attack. The exchange claims that the attack was carefully planned, and it resulted in the platform losing control of its own servers.
2020-12-25 17:19 | |
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Ripple's CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced that the company is being sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] and highlighted that this step taken by the SEC was an "attack of crypto".
2020-12-22 08:15 | |
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The exchange was actually behind the attack which lost €120 million (~$146 million) worth of Nano, police say. Fake Hacks Make Big Bucks Don’t judge a hack by its cover. The 34-year-old acronymed suspect was accused of being behind an attack that left the Italian exchange BitGrail millions of dollars in the red.
2020-12-21 19:54 | |
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Major cryptocurrency exchange Exmo lost 5% of its total assets due to an apparent hacking attack.
2020-12-21 15:21 | |
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Global crypto exchange Poloniex experienced an outage earlier today, and the exchange noted that their services were unavailable due to an ‘unexpected issue’. [embed]https://twitter.com/PoloSupThe post Crypto exchange Poloniex faces outage due to DDoS attack appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-12-5 17:15 | |
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Earlier this month, BEG reported that Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange, Liquid. com, experienced a data breach hack, affecting the users’ Know your Customer (KYC) information. The attack follows GoDaddy’s, the world’s largest domain registrar, an incursion that saw hackers trick the firm’s employees into transferring ownership and control over targeted domains.
2020-11-23 18:42 | |
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Over the weekend, an abnormal transaction caught the attention of multiple crypto analysts. In the incident in question, an anonymous user withdrew 80,000 ETH worth of flash loans from Aave, plus $116 million in flash loans from Uniswap.
2020-11-16 14:21 | |
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It’s ten years since the first official cyber-terrorist attack of a crypto exchange, and despite technological advances, most cryptocurrency entities have not yet been able...
2020-11-13 07:34 | |
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The exchange has awarded a bounty of $200,000 to private investigators who helped now-indicted bad actors who attacked the exchange in 2018.
2020-11-12 19:51 | |
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Japanese gaming giant Capcom’s networks have reportedly come under attack, with criminals demanding a bitcoin ransom in exchange for not leaking confidential company information to the public.
2020-11-11 04:30 | |
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Chief Security Officer at cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, Nicholas J. Percoco alerted users today about a scam that was targeting crypto users, which involved a homograph phishing attack and “multiThe post Kraken sounds the alarm for a phishing attack targeting its users appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-10-17 20:00 | |
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KuCoin, a renowned crypto exchange is partially restoring deposits and withdrawals following a major attack in late September. The exchange unveiled this news on October 7 through an official announcement.
2020-10-8 21:23 | |
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The KuCoin exchange hack has led to the attackers commencing a massive dump of several ERC-20 tokens now in their possession. The token dump is primarily taking place on the Uniswap decentralized exchange protocol, which theoretically makes it impossible to stop.
2020-9-28 12:05 | |
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KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange was hacked. At least $150 million in bitcoin (BTC), ethereum (ETH), and other ERC-20 tokens were drained from its hot wallets. Nonetheless, the price of bitcoin and ETH has remained unaffected by the malicious attack.
2020-9-27 18:11 | |
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Uniswap's surprise token delivery has given the decentralized exchange a market value of more than $5 billion, instantly making it No. 1 in DeFi.
2020-9-19 16:35 | |
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During the last two years, hackers have been trying to crack the seventh-largest bitcoin wallet, an address that holds 69,370 BTC or $712 million using today’s exchange rate. According to the CTO of the cybercrime intelligence firm, Hudson Rock, the wallet is being publicized on hacking forums in order to crack the password.
2020-9-12 20:30 | |
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An unfortunate $5 million hack on little-known Slovakian-based exchange, ETERBASE, occurred on September 8th as its hot wallets were compromised, the exchange announced on its Telegram page. The attack seems to have started on Sept.
2020-9-8 18:50 | |
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A software bug that deposits fake balances into cryptocurrency exchange wallets has been detected in 7,772 ERC-20 tokens worth over $1 billion.
2020-8-26 18:45 | |
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OKEx will consider delisting Ethereum Classic (ETC) following the recent 51% attacks that saw the crypto exchange lose $5. 6 million. This was prompted by a double-spend where the attacker created confusion by launching a ‘shadow chain’ and leveraging OKEx’s high ETC liquidity.
2020-8-19 21:47 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Okex reveals it suffered the $5. 6 million loss as a result of the double-spend carried out by the attacker(s) in Ethereum Classic 51% attack. Okex says it fully absorbed the loss as per its user-protection policy while insisting that the attack did not cause any loss to the platform’s users.
2020-8-18 01:00 | |
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Whale Alert reports that hackers who attacked Bitfinex exchange four years ago have reared their heads again, wired almost $5 mln in BTC from the crypto they stole then
2020-7-30 11:39 | |
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The Ethereum Foundation launched two Ethereum 2.0 attack networks for hackers to break in exchange for a bug bounty.
2020-7-21 21:33 | |
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Binance founder and CEO, Changpeng Zhao confirmed via Twitter that the Chinese domains of the leading cryptocurrency exchange suffered “targeted DDoS attacks. ” As such users experienced some lag and interruption of network access.
2020-4-29 17:25 | |
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The decentralized bitcoin trading network Bisq has reported an attack that resulted in the loss of 3 BTC worth nearly $22,000 and 4,000 XMR worth $224,000. The open-source, peer-to-peer exchange that requires no registration to trade cryptos suffered an attack 24 hours ago where the attacker exploited a flaw in Bisq’s trade protocol. Statement on the […]
2020-4-9 20:31 | |
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Prominent Bitcoin derivatives exchange, BitMEX, has been trying to provide answers to all the skeptics and users about its 13 March attack, one that contributed to mass liquidations. In a blog post daThe post BitMEX answers why it didn't use Insurance Fund on 13 March appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-3-23 18:30 | |
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BitMEX's Chief Technology Officer [CTO], Samuel Reed, had provided a gist of the attack that hit the exchange platform on 13 March. Now, BitMEX's Chief Executive Officer [CEO], Arthur Hayes, has come The post BitMEX's downtime on 13 March prompted by DDoS attack, not 'hardware issues' appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-3-17 15:00 | |
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BitMEX exchange, has revealed what caused a downtime in their network last week amid the crypto market bear run. The company’s CTO, Samuel Reed, updated stakeholders via his twitter handle noting that a botnet had compromised the system; So here's what we know so far: on Mar 13 at both 02:15 UTC and 12:56 UTC, […]
2020-3-17 23:09 | |
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Bitcoin’s price struggle was further exacerbated last week when the coin plunged to $3,700 on BitMEX and caused almost $1. 2 billion in long contracts to be liquidated on the platform. Now, the exchange’s CTO has revealed that the liquidations were caused by sophisticated botnet attacks that have been probing the platform for days and were […] The post Advanced botnet attack caused $1.
2020-3-17 22:34 | |
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Following a sophisticated attack, Coinhako crypto exchange which enjoys the backing of Tim Draper, announced that it was restricting its clients from withdrawing their funds. The exchange which operates in Singapore announced on Friday that it had temporarily suspended the crypto account send capabilities.
2020-2-28 16:52 | |
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While it is hard to cyber-attack Bitcoin and other crypto asset networks, you can more easily cyber-attack companies in the space. This was proven true over the past 48 hours, with two exchanges recently revealing that they’ve been subject to a denial-of-service attack, suggesting some shenanigans going on in the backdrop of the crypto market.
2020-2-28 13:36 | |
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Coinhako has restricted user accounts since last Friday following an "attack," but has not released many details around the incident.
2020-2-28 22:05 | |
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There’s a new extortion scam that targets Google AdSense serving websites and demands Bitcoin (BTC) in exchange for the prevention of an attack. This attack, according to the extortionist, would lead to the AdSense account of targeted users to be suspended or banned.
2020-2-18 00:44 | |
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A new email extortion scam demands BTC from AdSense users in exchange for preventing an attack
2020-2-18 20:38 | |
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Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) is an open standard for strengthening two-factor authentication. It involves the use of a physical key to reinforce 2FA, hardening your online accounts from attack. In this guide, we’ll explain how to use a Yubikey to lock down your exchange account, email account, and other valuable online accounts.
2020-2-9 20:32 | |
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Altsbit, a cryptocurrency exchange operating in the Italian market, fell victim of a hacker attack. All funds, including those of customers, were stolen. Another exit scam is suspected.
2020-2-11 16:59 | |
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In shocking news, cryptocurrency exchange Kraken’s Security Labs announced that they were able to find a “critical flaw” in Trezor hardware wallets. Kraken Security Labs announced on Friday that they have devised a way to extract seeds from both crypto hardware wallets of Trezor One and Trezor Model T.
2020-2-1 21:58 | |
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In November, Upbit, a popular Korean crypto asset exchange, lost $50 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) from the exchange hot wallet in a seeming hack. Details on the attack remain sparse — some think it was an inside job as the word “hack” was not mentioned and due to the timing of the loss of... The post appeared first on NewsBTC.
2020-1-5 02:00 | |
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In November, Upbit, a popular Korean crypto asset exchange, lost $50 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) from the exchange hot wallet in a seeming hack. Details on the attack remain sparse — some think it was an inside job as the word “hack” was not mentioned and due to the timing of the loss of... The post appeared first on NewsBTC.
2020-1-5 02:00 | |
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2019 saw a number of large crypto exchange hacks, resulting in millions of dollars stolen per attack. Here are 5 of the biggest breaches in the last 12 months. While cryptocurrencies are well-known for increased security — mostly thanks to the decentralized nature of their underlying technology — the same cannot be said for crypto exchanges.
2019-12-26 17:45 | |
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A security research team at Kraken, a crypto exchange valued at $4 billion, has found a way to gain access to seeds from the widely-used KeepKey hardware wallet. To carry out the attack, the Kraken Security Labs team said that a specialized piece of hardware and knowledge is needed.
2019-12-11 18:23 | |
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More than $300 million worth of bitcoins were withdrawn from Bittrex accounts. Users fear that the exchange fell victim of another tremendous hacker attack, but the exchange itself claims that deposits are safe.
2019-12-5 00:09 | |
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Hackers are getting bolder and smarter, which isn’t good news for the cryptocurrency community. On January 15th, Cryptopia shut down as they found a “security breach,” causing them to experience massive losses.
2019-11-28 20:18 | |
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Coinspeaker Upbit Hack Is the Seventh Crypto Exchange Hack This Year, but Is It the Last One?The hack that was yesterday confirmed by Upbit is the seventh major attack on crypto exchanges this year.
2019-11-28 13:24 | |
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Major South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, UpBit, announced that over 340,000 worth of Ethereum (ETH) was transferred to an anonymous wallet. While the exchange did not explicitly mention a hack attack nor specify how the withdrawal was done, the company pledged to cover up the missing funds.
2019-11-27 16:00 | |
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On 27 November, the South Korean crypto exchange Upbit announced successful hacking attack that resulted in 342,000 ETH worth $50 million fleeing away.
2019-12-1 14:14 | |
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It is more than obvious that the last is yet to be heard about controversies in the crypto world. At the moment, the reports are buzzing with issues relating to the Bitfinex exchange and Tether (USDT).
2019-11-26 16:30 | |
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Over the past 11 years, numerous cryptocurrency exchanges have been hacked. The total amount of funds stolen because of these incidents has become astronomical. Even in 2019, that trend is not slowing down.
2019-11-11 05:30 | |
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