2021-9-30 15:55 |
Cointelegraph spoke to the hacker for insights on the timeline of events, as well as the wider implications of bounty programs on DeFi’s security landscape. origin »
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DeFi project Poly Network promised the hacker, who made off with more than $600 million worth of tokens last week, a $500,000 bounty to restore the funds and offered them the position of “chief security advisor,” CNBC reported.
2021-8-18 18:35 | |
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Cryptocurrency platform Poly Network, after losing $610 million last week, had offered $500,000 to the hackers as a form of bounty. The firm stated that it has offered the “bug bounty” to the hacker, who had returned most of the funds.
2021-8-18 13:50 | |
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The DeFi hacker’s initial intentions remain unclear, but they refused to accept a $500,000 bounty after returning all funds.
2021-8-16 16:25 | |
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The white-hat hacker claims to have mercifully minimized the damage of their $8 million exploit in a bid to teach THORChain a lesson.
2021-7-23 06:11 | |
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The THORChain network remains halted after the protocol suffered a hack, in which the perpetrator is estimated to have made off with $7.6 million in crypto assets.
2021-7-17 05:23 | |
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Only 4% of nearly 120,000 Bitcoin (around $7 billion today) stolen by a hacker from crypto exchange Bitfinex in 2016 have been laundered so far—and it will take the thieves over a century to cash out their bounty in full, according to blockchain intelligence firm Elliptic.
2021-5-15 04:00 | |
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A bumper payout for identifying a critical bug in a smart contract caused increased confidence in the ArmorFi platform and a 100%+ token pump.
2021-2-6 16:29 | |
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Harvest Finance is actively tackling the apparent $24 million attack.
2020-10-26 10:56 | |
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aelf Stakes $100,000 USD (1 Million ELF) to anyone who can hack their Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol On July 16th, 2020 aelf announced their latest bounty program in which hackers will race against each other in an attempt to hack 1 million ELF tokens ($100,000 USD at time of press) in a Cross-Chain token transfer.
2020-7-17 16:06 | |
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One of the most notorious hackers in the world, Phineas Fisher, has offered a bounty of $100,000 USD to any hacker who is able to break into banks or oil firms to leak information that can be considered beneficial to the public's interest.
2019-11-19 01:10 | |
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Infamous hacker Phineas Fisher offers to pay up to $100,000 in Bitcoin or Monero for leaking damaging data about high-profile firms
2019-11-20 00:25 | |
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It’s easy to fall into a lull of new technology. To accept that everything new that comes your way, and is already tested for every possible mishap. A hacker broke this illusion when they first stole, then returned the 17 Ethereum Name Server (ENS) domain name's to OpenSea. They managed to exploit a bug that […]
2019-10-5 18:04 | |
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Binance Jersey will issue a security bug bounty to the white hat hacker who got hold of its domain name and twitter account. On August 16, Binance Jersey confessed that a hacker was successful in compromising its website’s domain name and also gaining access to its twitter handle, @BinanceJE.
2019-8-18 21:39 | |
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By CCN: Hackers who stole $44M from Binance are busy shifting the 7,074 bitcoin to seven wallets as they work to convert their bounty to fiat. Eagle-eyed analysts at London-based research team, Coinfirm, are tracking the stolen bitcoins, and have found the hackers have now spread them across seven digital wallet addresses.
2019-5-10 15:22 | |
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Michael M. “Trey” Garland, III, who is a production manager with BitFi Security, recently posted a statement about the ongoing security efforts that the company is making to strengthen wallets. In the announcement, which was posted to Twitter on Saturday, Garland indicates that he was formerly a member of a Hacker Collective that was evaluating […]
2018-9-10 04:28 | |
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John McAfee’s ‘unhackable’ cryptocurrency wallet – the one with a $250,000 bug bounty on it – has been cracked to run the iconic game DOOM, courtesy of a teenage security researcher. Video of the old-school first-person shooter has surfaced on Twitter.
2018-8-9 11:45 | |
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Cryptocurrency influencer John McAfee sat down with Nick Hellmann for an interview on Hellman’s YouTube channel “Learn Crypto. ” McAfee has confidently declared that the Bitfi cryptocurrency wallet he has developed is “unhackable.
2018-8-7 22:05 | |
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Our wallet remains ‘unhackable,’ says Bitfi, after alleged hacker fails to claim the company’s $100,000 bounty
2018-8-3 21:35 | |
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Right okay, this isn’t a get rich scheme, unless you’re an ethical hacker. Also, it also relies on John McAfee being wrong about the security parameters of his own wallet. So actually, you might not be able to make $100,000.
2018-7-26 06:00 | |
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Decentralized exchange DEx. top recently announced it joined forces with the world’s largest ethical hacker community, HackerOne, to launch the HackerOne Challenge bug bounty program. The program leverages on HackerOne’s network of security experts to search and provide.
2018-7-8 21:05 | |
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According to data from EOS Authority, EOS has finally acquired the minimum votes required for its network to go live. After EOS failed to launch its platform on its projected launch date of June 2, a live-stream vote was called, where users voted “Go” to launch the blockchain network.
2018-6-15 03:10 | |
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Shopin — a universal shopper profile that delivers personal shopping experiences through retailers’ apps, websites and stores — says one of its token distributors has been hacked and roughly $10 million in a variety of cryptocurrencies has been stolen.
2018-6-11 01:22 | |
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Decentralized finance protocol Compound is marching ahead with plans to tap into its competitor Morpho with the launch of new lending vaults on Polygon. The new vaults went live on March 13 at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time. It comes after…
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Falcon Finance, a cutting-edge synthetic dollar protocol, has taken a major step forward in safeguarding user assets by integrating Fireblocks Off Exchange. Unlike conventional systems that rely on centralized clearing parties, Fireblocks Off Exchange uses secure, shared wallets powered by Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology.
Web3 security firm GoPlus Security has launched an investigation after its token dropped 60% in a single day, noting that it wasn’t informed about the the listing beforehand. GoPlus Security (GPS), a web3 firm that says it’s working on the…
After experiencing a downtrend over the past three months, the Avalanche community now anticipates a potential bullish reversal for AVAX, driven by ecosystem developments and increasing adoption. In a recent X post, trader Marzell told his 37.6k followers that AVAX…