2019-9-13 00:45 |
A Russian law firm says it can help Mt Gox creditors recover up to $2 billion worth of bitcoins stolen in the 2014 hack. origin »
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Coinspeaker Russian ZP Legal Claims They Can Recover Mt. Gox’s $2 Billion Lost in Bitcoin HackRussian law firm Zheleznikov and Partners has proposed a way to recover up to 200,000 Bitcoin stolen from Mt.
2019-9-13 11:34 | |
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Reports of Pyongyang amassing wealth to fund its weapons program have been widely circulated. However, the North Korea regime has denied allegations of carrying out multiple hacks on crypto exchanges and finance companies.
2019-9-2 10:15 | |
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Bitpoint Taiwan is suing its parent exchange for 1 billion yen ($9.4 million) damages in what it claims was overbilling by the parent exchange following a hack. Cointelegraph reports that Bitpoint Taiwan found out that the amount of funds it got from its local customers were less by 500 million yen ($4.7 million) as a […]
2019-8-23 21:56 | |
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Another chunk of the 119,756 BitcoinBTC (351,015 USD) of stolen funds transferred from Bitfinex Hack 2016 to unknown wallet Tx: https://t. co/ipfik2Tpd2 — Whale Alert (@whale_alert) August 12, 2019 In 2016, hackers succeeded in stealing 119,756 BTC from seminal cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex.
2019-8-13 18:44 | |
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The exchange lost 3 billion yuan during a hack on July 11.
2019-8-6 04:42 | |
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On July 14, Bitpoint Japan, a cryptocurrency exchange operated by Remixpoint, reported that crypto assets valued at about JPY 3.02 billion ( USD 28 million) had been stolen.
2019-7-24 22:00 | |
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Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint was hacked last week when hackers stole 3. 5 billion yen ($32 million) from the exchange’s hot wallet, of which 2. 5 billion yen were customer funds.
2019-7-16 15:48 | |
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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.
2019-7-16 15:47 | |
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Japanese cryptocurrency exchange, BitPoint, was all over the news recently following a 3. 5 billion yen hack on the exchange. In recent developments, the exchange revealed that 250 million yen worth of cryptocurrencies was found.
2019-7-15 13:30 | |
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Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint, owned by Remixpoint, halted all operations on Friday, July 12. The exchange lost $32 million worth of cryptocurrency in a hack. Bitpoint Clients Lose $22.
2019-7-12 17:00 | |
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Facebook’s popular messaging app with 1. 5 billion users in over 180 countries has another major vulnerability. Hackers were able to covertly install spyware on iOS and Android smartphones using Whatsapp with just a phone call.
2019-5-20 06:01 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Vincent He. Since May 1, 2019, bitcoin’s price has been rising, reaching a top of over $6,000. As the whole cryptocurrency industry was enjoying the rise, an unexpected hack put a stop to the rise of bitcoin.
2019-5-10 18:48 | |
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Bitcoin reclaimed its $100 billion market cap recently and despite the Binance hack yesterday, the price of Bitcoin crossed the $6,000 mark. The price of Bitcoin at press time was $6078, and it had a market cap of $107 billion.
2019-5-9 08:38 | |
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Bitfinex is forging forward despite its ongoing row with the authorities, and it's looking for investors to support its efforts. Today, May 8, 2019, iFinex, the operator and parent company of the popular cryptocurrency exchange, released a private token sale white paper, putting to rest rumors of its Initial Exchange Offering (IEO).
2019-5-8 18:33 | |
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Following one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance, suffering a hack that cost $40 million in BTCs, the market took a significant hit. The collective market lost $4 billion in a matter of hours, since news of the hack first broke out.
2019-5-8 12:40 | |
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By CCN. com: Still mired in controversy over that $850 million loss, the powers at be at Bitfinex have come up with an idea to replace the funds and it’s raising eyebrows for a bounty of reasons. Bitfinex’s solution to try to make whole those who were burned in the hack that led to the losses is to issue more tokens.
2019-5-6 11:11 | |
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Bithumb, which was hacked last month and later asked users to be careful about deposits, has reported a $180 million (205 billion Korean won) loss. The exchange suffers from reduced actual volume and a bear market in cryptocurrencies, according to the Korea Times.
2019-4-11 14:07 | |
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The Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has launched a Bitcoin over-the-counter (OTC) trading service for its users, per a post published on its official blog.
2019-4-2 18:26 | |
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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 | |
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Japan-Based Crypto Exchanges Move To Integrate Corporate Governance Through Acquisitions Japan-based crypto exchange, Coincheck, is among the firms within the crypto arena that are currently undergoing a managerial shift.
2019-2-7 20:54 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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In today’s edition of The Daily we feature a number of stories about financial companies adding cryptocurrency-related services including a custody solution from Fidelity and new CFDs for trading BCH vs precious metals.
2019-1-30 14:02 | |
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Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles has run into trouble in the Japanese legal system, and prosecutors are pursuing a 10-year jail sentence for alleged embezzlement during his tenure at Mt.
2018-12-13 21:15 | |
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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 | |
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After a bearish year of perennial price swings that culminated in months of tightly wound sideways movement, the (former) bottom has dropped out for bitcoin and the wider crypto market.
2018-11-28 21:44 | |
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Coincheck digital assets exchange and trading venue have announced the resumption of deposits and trading of Ripple’s XRP and Factom (FCT) altcoins, following its January 2018 half a billion dollar heist, reported Finance Magnates on November 26, 2018.
2018-11-26 14:00 | |
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Google Ventures-backed Blockchain is debuting a hardware wallet that integrates with its software services, a press release shared with Bitcoin Magazine details. In a partnership with hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger, the cryptocurrency software company has developed what it calls “a custom hardware device.
2018-10-26 19:38 | |
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Most digital exchanges are unregulated and therefore unqualified to safely process cryptocurrency transactions. They don’t employ necessary know-your-customer (KYC) tactics, and roughly $1 billion in digital asset funds have been stolen since the start of 2018.
2018-10-13 23:34 | |
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ZAIF, an Osaka-based cryptocurrency exchange that was hacked last month has yet to compensate the affected customers. ZAIF cryptocurrency exchange lost over 6. 7 billion Yen during the breach, 4.
2018-10-6 10:35 | |
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On September 22, 2018, Crowd Machine, a blockchain startup aiming to create the world’s first global cloud computing service built on distributed ledger infrastructure suffered a severe hack that targeted the company’s crypto wallet and led to the loss of over 1 billion of its native CMCT tokens.
2018-9-27 13:00 | |
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Japanese cryptocurrency firm Tech Bureau Corp’s Zaif exchange was hacked mid-month, where digital coin losses amounted to 7 billion yen ($60 million). Today, the country’s financial watchdog has accused the firm of failing to provide details on how thieves hacked the exchange and also for not explaining its delay in reporting the hack itself.
2018-9-26 10:00 | |
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Altcoins may come and go; hacks may challenge exchanges; mainstream financial advisors might not get it — but even in the face of a protocol bug, Bitcoin perseveres and develops.
2018-9-22 19:33 | |
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Considering the $60m Zaif exchange hack and the SEC's delayed decision put a sour note to the end of the week, the overall market cap still advanced almost 4% to $212 billion over the past 7 days.
2018-10-5 00:00 | |
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Another cryptocurrency heist has shaken Japan. This time, 6. 7 billion yen ($60 million USD) worth of company and user funds have vanished from Japanese cryptocurrency exchange platform Zaif.
2018-9-21 19:30 | |
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Zaif, a cryptocurrency exchange service, is the latest victim of an attack by suspected hackers. The Osaka-based platform has reportedly lost cryptocurrencies worth 6. 7 billion yen ($60 million) to the attackers.
2018-9-20 16:00 | |
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Hackers have swiped over $540 million (60 billion Yen) worth of cryptocurrency from Japanese netizens over the first six months of 2018. On September 20, Japan’s National Police Agency revealed the number of cryptocurrency-related reported incidents rose to 158 – triple the amount of incidents over the same period last year, local outlet The Asahi Shimbun reports.
2018-9-20 11:47 | |
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Thieves have fabricated 1 billion EOS based tokens, ironically also named EOS, in order to purchase a number of tokens from Newdex, a decentralised exchange. Since the EOS tokens we’re fake and have no value, the hackers managed to lift around $58,000.
2018-9-18 16:30 | |
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Mt. Gox, a former leader in the crypto markets and now, the enemy of many. After a hack which saw around 800,000 BTC stolen, the Mt. Gox story has gone from bad to worse, with the exchange now liable for making compensation payments to some of the victims who lost assets during the hack.
2018-9-17 13:30 | |
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At last, victims of the Mt. Gox exchange saga can now breathe as the exchange prepares to fully refund a billion dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency. Mt. Gox suffered a hack in 2014, which affected many users across the globe, losing about $1B worth of bitcoin.
2018-8-27 19:24 | |
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An end has not come to the controversy that surrounded the first cryptocurrency exchange and the world’s largest holder of bitcoin trades as at 2014. Mt. Gox saga made way for the likes of Tim Draper and the Winklevoss twins Tyler and Cameron the cofounders of Gemini exchange to make good fortune through the stolen […] The post Good News! Over $1 billion worth of Crypto to be Returned to victims of Mt.Gox Hack appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2018-8-25 21:56 | |
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Mt. Gox Trustee Commences Claiming Process You may not remember it, but in 2014, Mt. Gox was hacked for over 850,000 BTC in a now-infamous event. While the hack occurred in the crypto industry’s earliest stages, it still shook the community to its core, nonetheless.
2018-8-25 21:49 | |
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The fact that great responsibility accompanies great power has become crystal clear in the blockchain world. While blockchains are most commonly connected with commerce, the potential impact of distributed ledgers is being discovered in fresh sectors daily.
2018-8-10 20:51 | |
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This past week, we talked to three security experts about how to design smarter and more secure smart contracts. Google is dipping its toe in the blockchain waters by introducing integrations for applications built with Ethereum and Hyperledger.
2018-8-5 16:08 | |
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Mt. Gox are back in the headlines, this time as a result of a decision made by authorities that will see money owed by Mt. Gox, held until summer 2019. Just to recap, Mt. Gox are due to credit the accounts of customers who had funds stolen during the Mt.
2018-8-4 23:00 | |
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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 | |
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The exchange has offered users some options to recover their cryptocurrencies. Japan Confirms Entrance Into the Crypto Space Services Resumed Coinrail reported that it was hacked on June 10 with an estimated damage of about 45 billion won (~US$40 million).
2018-7-17 01:40 | |
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2018 may be remembered in the end as a stellar year for crypto hacks. With still five months to go there has been at least a billion USD stolen in digital assets according to CNBC and for anyone who’s been paying attention, that number seems light.
2018-7-12 12:49 | |
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The South Korean government has been criticized for not doing enough to help prevent hacking at cryptocurrency exchanges. Data obtained by the regulators show that three crypto exchanges were hacked, with damage of almost $1 billion, after having gone through an inspection by the government.
2018-7-11 22:20 | |
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Установлена связь между 10 000 BTC, которые 29 августа пришли в движение впервые с 2013 года, и обанкротившейся криптовалютной биржей Mt. Gox. Об этом сообщает Telegram-канал GFiS. По имеющейся информации, в каждой из цепочек транзакций, связанных с обоими выводами, фигурирует один и тот же кошелек, который принял 134 000 BTC с Mt.
Many scams are happening in the crypto industry, especially BTC. If an investor is not careful, he’ll fall prey to cybercriminals posing as legit projects or platforms. Sometimes, some exchanges might run into hitches and cause massive losses to investors.
Бывший руководитель закрывшейся криптовалютной биржи WEX (ранее BTC-e) Дмитрий Васильев был задержан 25 мая в аэропорту Хорватии по запросу властей Казахстана в связи с хищением у инвестора $20 000. Уроженец Республики Беларусь Дмитрий Васильев, бывший генеральный директор уже нефункционирующей биржи WEX, был задержан в аэропорту имени Франьо Туджмана в Загребе.
Coinspeaker Jack Dorsey’s Square Now Boasts of Nearly 150% in 2020 Stock GainsAmid gains of other fintech companies, Square stock has now added nearly 150% in its year-to-date record, rising with other fintechs.
Судебное разбирательство по делу сооснователя ныне закрытой криптовалютной биржи BTC-e Александра Винника, который был экстрадирован из Греции во Францию, состоится 14 сентября. Об этом сообщает РИА Новости со ссылкой на адвоката Фредерик Бело.
Вчера, 23 апреля, стало известно о гибели Тимофея Мусатова, адвоката сооснователя ныне закрытой криптовалютной биржи BTC-e Александра Винника. Об этом на своей странице в Facebook сообщил бывший партнер Мусатова Денис Гольдберг.
According to recent reports, the Bank of Russia has started using a regulatory sandbox to test the performance of stablecoins. Russia Warming to Stablecoins Russia’s stance towards cryptocurrencies has always been questionable, with the country’s intentions and goals never being fully known to anyone.