Mining Market NiceHash Refunds Users 4,640 Bitcoin Lost in 2017 Hack

The company has "regularly waived profits" for three years, the firm's CEO wrote Thursday.

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DeFi Founder Targeted in $8m Hack Says He Has His Hacker’s IP

The decentralized finance (DeFi) space was rocked last morning by news that Nexus Mutual founder Hugh Karp was hit with a personal attack. His project, a decentralized mutual product to allow users to hedge against risks in the DeFi space, was not directly affected.

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Cryptopia claims portal open for refund registration

Cryptopia liquidators Grant Thornton have officially opened the Cryptopia claims portal raising the hopes of users who lost access to their assets following the 2019 exchange hack

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Cryptopia liquidators open official claims portal

Cryptopia liquidators Grant Thornton have officially opened a claims portal raising the hopes of users who lost access to their assets following the 2019 exchange hack

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GoDaddy’s DNS Hack Is at the Center of Several Crypto Domains Being Compromised: Report

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.

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Harvest Finance запускает программу компенсации убытков

Анонимные разработчики протокола Harvest Finance анонсировали программу компенсации убытков, возникших в результате «инженерной ошибки» в октябре. How GRAIN works, a thread: For the affected USDC/USDT users from the hack who experienced the 15% drawdown, they'll get GRAIN tokens in a pro-rata manner based on their deposits, as well as their pro rata share of the 2.5M. […]

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Crypto Users Saw Robinhood Hack Coming a Mile Away

Cryptocurrency investors have long warned about the dangers of leaving coins on mobile trading app Robinhood. Turns out they were onto something. Robinhood, which was popularized for its commission-free trades, has suffered a security breach in which close to 2,000 accounts were affected, Bloomberg reported, citing a person close to the situation.

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CryptoWhale on why the 150k BTC compensation to Mt. Gox users could be catastrophic to Bitcoin’s price

Mt. Gox Users who fell victim to the 2014 infamous hack of the Bitcoin exchange might finally get their funds back in the next 10 days, if the rehabilitation plan to compensate them goes through on October 15.

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Ledger Calls Out KuCoin After Hack as Wallet Users Cry Foul

Following the KuCoin hack, hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger went on to advocate for safer storage on its own wallets. KuCoin, a major Asian crypto exchange platform, has been the victim of a hack in which $150 million in crypto was stolen, as BeInCrypto reported.

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Court finds Bithumb 'partially liable' for 2017 hack

A judge in the Seoul Central District Court today announced a ruling regarding a lawsuit filed by three users of Bithumb Korea who claimed $126,000 and $38,000 for damages citing data leaks during a 2The post Court finds Bithumb 'partially liable' for 2017 hack appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Hacker Hijacks Twitter Account of Indian Prime Minister’s Relief Fund, Asks Followers for Crypto

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the latest victim of a Twitter hack undertaken to trick social media users into sending crypto to the attackers.

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Phishing Attacks On Electrum Wallet Sees Over $16 Million Stolen From Unsuspecting Users

New reports show that over $500,000 worth of Bitcoin (BTC) has been siphoned from Electrum wallets – about 72 hours after a GitHub user claimed they had lost 1,400 BTC in a similar hack. Some of the funds have been traced to Binance, with the exchange blacklisting up to 70 accounts linked to the transaction […] The post Phishing Attacks On Electrum Wallet Sees Over Million Stolen From Unsuspecting Users first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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DeFi Review: What Is Nexus Mutual? Introduction to NXM

Nexus Mutual's so-called “Smart Contract Cover” would provide users an extra level of safety for events like the DAO hack in 2016.

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Crypto Firm Hacked for $1.4M Admits It Will Struggle to Reimburse Users

Madrid-based payment app and card issuer 2gether said it can only reimburse investors with its native tokens following Friday’s hack.

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Twitter Releases Details of Attack Vector Used by Crypto Hacker

Twitter has published an update on its investigation into the causes of the recent hack, during which 12 Bitcoin was conned out of the platform’s users.

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Twitter Stock Pumps in Aftermath of Crypto Scammer Hack

Twitter stocks have risen 8% since the major data breach the company suffered last week. The social media platform revealed a record increase in users in the second quarter and added a staggering $1 billion to its market capitalization during this period.

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Twitter Confirms that DMs of 36 High Profile Users Were Affected by Hack

Coinspeaker Twitter Confirms that DMs of 36 High Profile Users Were Affected by HackFurther updates have been provided by Twitter following the hack of its platform last week. The new information shows that the DMs of 36 accounts were compromised.

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Coinbase Users Were Prevented From Sending Over 30 BTC to the Twitter Hackers

Following the Twitter hack in which the hackers successfully stole $120,000 in BTC through a giveaway scam, Coinbase has revealed that it prevented over a thousand of its users from sending a total of 30.

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Twitter Hack Could Have Been a Lot Worse: New Details

Coinspeaker Twitter Hack Could Have Been a Lot Worse: New DetailsIt has become known that Coinbase saved over 1,000 users from sending Bitcoins to scammers in the recent Twitter hack.

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Twitter On Fire After Obama, Musk, Gates Accounts Were Hijacked to Promote Bitcoin Scams

It was galore of commotion for the entire Twitter space on the 15th of July. Users of the social media application have been left in shock after witnessing what Cybersecurity experts say is the “worst hack of a major social media platform yet.

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Chainalysis Says Bitcoin Scammed From Twitter Users Is ‘On the Move’

The defrauded bitcoin amassed during Wednesday’s monumental Twitter hack is already “on the move,” according to cryptocurrency tracing firm Chainalysis.

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Ethereum users continue to accumulate despite DeFi hack, ETH 2.0 uncertainty

It’s been a boring past few weeks in the crypto markets.

The post Ethereum users continue to accumulate despite DeFi hack, ETH 2.0 uncertainty appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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DeFi Protocol dForce Successfully Compensates All Users After Last Week’s $24.95 Million Hack

Chinese decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, dForce was hacked last week but the startup promised to make users whole again. The platform announced that it has fully compensated the victims through the funds that the hacker returned.

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DeFi Project dForce Refunds All Affected Users After $25M Hack

The Lendf.me smart contract was hacked on April 29, but then, curiously, the funds were returned two days later.

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Happy Ending of Ethereum DeFi Hack Still Leaves Much to Be Desired

It has been a tumultuous ride for users of Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) over the past few days. The evening of April 18th saw DeFi protocol Lendf. me go into a tailspin, with the protocol’s primary address bleeding funds at a rapid clip.

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Cryptopia Update: Victims of Hacked Bitcoin Exchange to Receive $100M Compensation

A Christchurch High Court has ruled that over 800,000 users of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange platform Cryptopia, are entitled to the digital assets held in their accounts before the hack occurred.

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Court Classifies Crypto As ‘Property’ After Cryptopia Exchange Hack; Funds Returning to Users

The High Court of New Zealand ruled on April 8, 2020, that the cryptocurrencies are beneficially owned by the account holders and aren’t the assets of the company, on the basis that cryptos are “property” under Companies Act and cryptos were held on multiple trusts.

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High Court Delivers Judgement on User Assets at Hacked Exchange Cryptopia

Users at the now-defunct exchange Cryptopia are the co-beneficiaries of trusts that contained their assets prior to the platform’s hack

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Cryptopia Users Win Victory in Court Case Over Crypto Assets Worth Over $100M

In the fallout from a massive hack of the New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange, users at last have a little good news.

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Iota Founder Confirms He Will Repay Victims of $1.97 Million Hack

Iota’s founder will personally repay the 8.52 million MIOTA that were stolen from 46 Iota users in last month’s attack

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Crypto Investment Fund Suffers Hack Exposing Data of 266,000 Users: Report

The personal data of about 266,000 people registered with the fund may have been exposed.

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IOTA Urges Users To Use New Seed Migration Tool After Trinity Wallet Hack

Following IOTA’s recent hack on its Trinity Wallet, the development team is urging the users to protect their wallets by changing their passwords and implementing a secure way for users to protect their funds.

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Upbit Continues to Freeze Crypto Withdrawals For Foreign Users

South Korean crypto exchange, Upbit, started to block withdrawals for its foreign users back in December 2019. Initially it was thought to be in response to the hack that took place, but now it seems it may have something to do with the company’s outstanding tax fine.

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IOTA (MIOTA) Urges Trinity Owners to Protect Their Wallets, Here?s How

After the recent hack faced by IOTA?s Trinity Wallet, the IOTA team is urging users to protect their balance stored on crypto wallets, providing the necessary tool for it

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Upbit Exchange Resumes Ether Services Months After $49M Hack

Upbit said users will need to create new wallet addresses to resume trading.

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Hashpower Broker NiceHash Can’t Promise to Fully Reimburse Hack Losses

Hashpower rental marketplace NiceHash has frozen its repayment program for users affected by a major hack in Dec. 2017 due to insufficient cash flow

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Last Week Today: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Weekly Digest August 1st-8th

Binance KYC Data Leak Drama An Indictment Of Vulnerable Services Built Around Bitcoin In a data leak which is speculated to be linked to the hack back in May, which resulted in a theft of 7000 BTC from the exchange, nearly 60,000 Binance users' KYC data has been reportedly compromised. After failing to extort 300 […]

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BNB Dumps and Pumps on KYC Hack

Binance’s stock like token (BNB) began falling somewhat yesterday on rumors the identification documents of thousands of exchange users had been hacked. Binance itself denied it, stating their identification documents.

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Binance Investigating Alleged Leak Of Users' KYC Images

In what is said to be related to Binance's May hack that saw the crypto exchange lose 7,000 bitcoin, an individual claims to be in possession of more than 60,000 images Binance customers uploaded to the platform as part of the know-your-customer process.

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Binance KYC Hack: CZ Denies That Scammers Stole Thousands Of Users Data

Reports have been going around that the Binance Crypto exchange was allegedly hacked as “Thousands of KYC users data” were on Telegram messenger. The solicitude of the major exchange users occurred when the photos of passports and identity cards allegedly owned by Binance users appeared on the Telegram channel named “FIND YOUR BINANCE KYC”.

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Hacked BITpoint Exchange to Refund 50,000 Affected Users in Crypto

BITPoint Japan has said that the roughly 50,000 users who lost funds in its recent hack will be reimbursed in cryptocurrency on a 1:1 basis.

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Bitpoint Plans to Refund $30 Million to Hack Victims

Japanese crypto exchange operator Bitpoint pledged to compensate the victims of the recent hack. The company plans to refund about $30 million worth of cryptocurrency. About 50,000 Clients Affected by the Hack On Tuesday, Bitpoint published an update on its website, revealing the amounts of stolen crypto.

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55,000 cryptocurrency users affected in Bitpoint’s $28 million hack

Embattled cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint has revealed that roughly half of its 110,000 users were affected by last week’s $3. 02 billion yen ($28 million) hack, reports The Mainchi. Speaking at a Tokyo press conference, Bitpoint president Genki Oda noted that of the 3.

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Bitpoint Suffers $32 Million Hack

Japanese crypto exchange Bitpoint announced it has been hit by a major hack, with malicious actors stealing $32 million worth of five different cryptocurrencies. A majority of the stolen funds were taken from the platform's users, with just over a quarter of the amount stolen from the exchange itself.

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Coinbase Looks To Set Up Regulated Captive Insurance Company

As an alternative to the standard crypto exchange practice of self-insurance, Coinbase is in talks with insurance broker Aon to set up a regulated captive insurance company to protect Coinbase and its users in the event of a hack.

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Bitrue Suffers $5 Million Hack, Suspends Trading

Hackers were able to breach the accounts of about 90 users of the Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange, managing to steal 9.3 million XRP and 2.5 million Cardano, totaling $4.7 million.

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Bitrue Crypto Exchange Hacked: 9.3M Ripple (XRP), 2.5M Cardano (ADA) Stolen; Funds Insured

We were led to believe that the crypto infrastructure is becoming more secure, but it seems that hackers always see to be a step ahead when it comes to finding security vulnerabilities. Just after a month of the infamous Binance hack, Bitrue becomes the most recent victim.

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Reverse Pickpocket: Why Komodo Team Hacked Their Own Users

The cryptocurrency world is full of risks, from malicious hackers to unexpected bugs. But you’d never expect developers to hack their own users–and you’d be even more surprised if their next step was to give the stolen funds back.

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This Crypto Startup Hacks Its Own Users’ Wallets to Rescue $13 Million

By CCN: Better the thief you know than the one you don’t. Cryptocurrency platform Komodo has had to hack its users after discovering a serious security flaw in one of its wallets. According to a press statement by the blockchain startup, Komodo’s cybersecurity team was able to ‘sweep’ in and retrieve 8 million Komodo coins (KMD) and 96 Bitcoin before hackers got hold of the exposed loot.

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