Axie Infinity's Ronin bridge hacker on the move again, cashes in another 3k ETH

It's been a while since the crypto community witnessed the unfortunate Ronin Network hack on 29 March. The blockchain underlying the popular crypto game Axie Infinity lost 173,600 Ethereum (ETH) and 2The post Axie Infinity's Ronin bridge hacker on the move again, cashes in another 3k ETH appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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U.S. Sanctions Bitcoin Mixer Blender for Helping Launder $20.5M to North Korea

The United States on Friday sanctioned cryptocurrency mixing service Blender for allegedly helping North Korean hackers launder around $20. 5 million stolen from the Axie Infinity hack at the end of March.

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US Treasury links three more Ethereum wallets to the $625M Ronin hack

The Ronin Network exploit happened in March and saw $600 million worth of Ethereum… The post US Treasury links three more Ethereum wallets to the $625M Ronin hack appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Ronin hack: Sky Mavis prepares reimbursement through $150M funding round

Sky Mavis has announced to reimburse all the victims in the $600 million that took place on 23 March. Binance confirmed it is leading the initial $150 million funding round with Animoca Brands, a16z, The post Ronin hack: Sky Mavis prepares reimbursement through $150M funding round appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Axie Infinity (AXS) rallies amid growing market support

Axie Infinity (AXS/USD) witnessed a significant plunge toward the end of March after a $620M hack on the Ronin network. The hack has disrupted the schedule for which Axie Infinity would unveil developments on the network.

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Axie Infinity Delays Launch of ‘Origin’ Game Following Massive Hack

The new “Axie Infinity: Origin” was originally supposed to debut on March 30.

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PoW avoids EU ban, two DeFi protocols suffer a combined $11M hack and BAYC does an ApeCoin airdrop: Hodler’s Digest, March 13-19

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At Least 6,000 Coinbase Accounts Exposed In Hack

Coinbase has released a breach notification letter this week saying that a minimum of 6,000 user accounts were victim to hackers. The exchange has stated that the breach took place between March and May of this year.

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Poloniex Claims All Customers Repaid Following March Bitcoin Hack

The cryptocurrency exchange is saying it has fully reimbursed all affected customers since it suffered an attack in March.

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PAID Network Rewards Community for Support during Hack

The company uses blockchain technology to allow businesses to create smart agreements. The PAID token at the center of the hack acts as the core utility within the Network ecosystem.   Experts picked up the hack on March.

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2019 Hacked Exchange, DragonEx, to Roll Out New DWQ Token to ‘Temporarily’ Resume Withdraws

DragonEX, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange that was hacked in March of 2019, has been rebuilding its exchange and recouping losses from the hack. Back in October, the exchange was forced to stop deposits and withdrawals.

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Bitcoin News Roundup for March 23, 2020

TEZOS dumped BTC and a clever hack to survive Zoom meetings. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast.

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IOTA (MIOTA) Successfully Reboots Network Following $2.2M Heist

The IOTA Foundation, the nonprofit organization in charge of the IOTA (MIOTA) network, has announced that Coordinator, a temporary security mechanism for the IOTA network has now been reinstated following the Trinity wallet hack that took place last month, according to a blog post on March 10, 2020.

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Bitcoin News Roundup for March 10, 2020

Bitcoin price goes up along with traditional markets while hackers hack hackers. Welcome to CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast.

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IOTA Co-Founder to Compensate Trinity Wallet Victims from Personal Crypto Holdings

In a recent Tweet, IOTA (MIOTA) co-founder David Sonstebo said that he’d be compensating the victims of the Trinity Wallet hack from his own cryptocurrency holdings. Sonstebo posted the Tweet on March 7, 2020.

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Mt. Gox Rehabilitation Plan Deadline Extended Again

The deadline to form a reimbursement plan for victims of the infamous Mt. Gox cryptocurrency exchange hack has been pushed back to March 2020. The post Mt. Gox Rehabilitation Plan Deadline Extended Again appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Mt. Gox Users Get New Postponement Update as the Submission Deadline Moves to March 2020

Mt. Gox the infamous bitcoin exchange which shut its operations down and filed for liquidation back in April 2014 claiming to have lost 750,000 BTC to a hack attack and since then it has been involved in a never-ending saga of court cases filed by the investors. The investors filed a lawsuit against CEO Mark […]

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Infographic: An Overview of Compromised Bitcoin Exchange Events

The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.

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Still Reeling From $54 Million Bitcoin Hack, Binance Sues Sequoia Capital

By CCN: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao — who is still reeling after a $54 million bitcoin hack — is suing Sequoia Capital China, a unit of California-based venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. In his May 20 legal filing with the High Court in Hong Kong, Zhao claims Sequoia Capital China prevented him from raising capital between Dec.

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Over $100 Million Missing: CoinBene Claims Maintenance, a Month of Questions Point Toward a Hack

Since March 2019, CoinBene has denied being hacked, but several details have recently emerged that point to that conclusion

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Mt. Gox Users’ Self-Approved Rehabilitation Claims Could Receive Some Of Their Bitcoins Back

Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has been affected in the past by several issues such as the hack that the cryptocurrency platform Mt. Gox experienced back in 2014. The exchange’s civil rehabilitation proceedings started back on March 20, 2019.

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Bitcoin Dev Demos the First Lightning-Enabled Bitcoin ATM

At the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong’s Lightning Hack Day on March 31, 2019, Bitcoin developer Felix Weis presented a successful demonstration of his Lightning-enabled plugin for a Bitcoin ATM.

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Lazarus Hacker Group Continues to Target Crypto Using Faked Trading Software

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.

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Bithumb Hacked Again? – Hackers Reportedly Steal $15 Million in EOS

Bithumb temporarily suspended deposit and withdrawal services on its platform. The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange appears to be the latest victim of another hack with $15 million worth of EOS allegedly stolen by cybercriminals.

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Binance exchange promises to freeze ‘identify-able stolen funds’ post DragonEx hack

DragonEx, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange, was hacked on 26 March, with many users losing huge sums of their cryptocurrency assets. The exchange claimed that a part of the stolen assets was retrieved and that they were working on recovering the remaining amount.

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Singapore’s DragonEx Reports Hack, Releases Suspected Wallet Addresses

The Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx has announced a security breach to its users via its official Telegram channel. In the message, a company administrator revealed that the hackers stole assets belonging to both the exchange and its users.

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Coinbene Produces Update About Exchange Maintenance Amid Rumors Of A Hack By Users

Coinbene Announces Maintenance Amid Rumors Of A Hack Due to unfortunate previous experiences, crypto users are often on the lookout for signs that an Exchange has been hacked and often demand answers for all activity that might Suggest so.

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Singapore Crypto Exchange DragonEx Hacked

In yet another major exchange hack of 2019, DragonEx has confirmed that a hack of their platform took place on March 24, 2019, and that the matter has been reported to law enforcement. Hacked It would seem at this point that hacks of crypto exchanges are inevitable to a degree. Cryptopia was one of theRead More

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Singapore: Crypto Exchange DragonEx Reports Hack of Both Platform, User Assets

Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx has notified its users that it suffered a hack on March 24

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Twitter/Square CEO Jack Dorsey is Hiring Crypto Engineers – to Serve Him or the Bitcoin Ecosystem?

Square’s CEO Jack Dorsey has announced that the payments startup’s ‘small way to give back’ to the cryptocurrency ecosystem is to hire up to four full-time crypto engineers and one designer. #BitcoinTwitter and #CryptoTwitter! Square is hiring 3-4 crypto engineers and 1 designer to work full-time on open source contributions to the bitcoin/crypto ecosystem.

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Cryptopia Exchange Relaunches Following January Hack

Following a January 2019 hack that cost them millions of dollars, Cryptopia has relaunched on March 19, 2019, With 40 Trading pairs. The History of the Hack In January 2019, Cryptopia experienced one of the first crypto exchange hacks of the year which led to the loss of millions of dollars and a second hackRead MoreRead More.

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Karpeles Beats Embezzlement Charges in Mt Gox Ruling

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.

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Gatecoin Cryptocurrency Exchange Calls It Quits After Six Years And $2 Million Hack

Gatecoin Cryptocurrency Exchange Calls It Quits After Six Years. Gatecoin, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchanged founded in 2013 by Aurelien Menant, a former investment banking expert, has announced it is now bankrupt and would end operations with immediate effect, according to a statement by the firm on March 14, 2019. End Of The Road For […]

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Years after brutal $2M hack, Gatecoin cryptocurrency exchange is dead

Seminal cryptocurrency exchange Gatecoin is dead. It’s finally going into liquidation, years after it lost $2 million in cryptocurrency belonging to its customers. Gatecoin was one of the first regulated digital asset exchange services to spring up.

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Trezor Report Addresses Ledger’s Vulnerability Claims

Following a report published by Ledger which outlined five vulnerabilities within Trezor wallets, the company has responded and addressed the issues in a March 12, 2019 blog post. Put on the Spot When a blockchain or crypto firm is under fire, whether for an acquisition or a hack, it is always in their best interestRead MoreRead More.

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Japan: Crypto Network Hacks Doubled In 2018

2018 saw an almost 50 percent increase in the number of attacks on Internet of Things (IoT) devices and crypto networks in Japan, as reported by Asahi, March 7, 2019. Intensified Effort Probably the only thing that strikes more fear into the minds of the blockchain community than a bear market is a hack, severalRead MoreRead More.

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Cryptopia Returns, Restores User Balances to Pre-Hack State

Cryptopia has relaunched its website and restored its users’ balances to their pre-hack state, as confirmed by their official Twitter account on March 5, 2019. Back in Business One of the biggest stories of early 2019 was the hack of New Zealand-based exchange Cryptopia in January 2019 which led to the loss of $16 million.

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Hacked Cryptopia Resumes with Read-Only Website

Cryptopia has announced that its read-only website is now live. The New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange platform suffered a hack back in mid-January, leading to the theft of about nine percent of the company’s funds.

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Cryptopia Could Open by March 4 as Officials Hint at Sums Lost in Hack

Ahead of imminent relaunch, Cryptopia says it lost it at most around 10 percent of funds in its hack

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“Guidance by Enforcement”: How the SEC Is Slowly Shaping ICO Regulation

On November 27, 2018, a California judge turned back the SEC’s request for an injunction against token company BlockVest, a company the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pursuing for allegedly conducting an unregistered securities offering.

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Look at Data From Past Bitcoin Crashes and You Might (Possibly) Feel Better

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.

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Op Ed: Why Is There So Much Talk About a Bitcoin ETF?

An exchange-traded bitcoin fund (ETF) would signal greater acceptance of bitcoin as a mainstreet investment, while also making it much easier for both institutional and retail investors to get involved.

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Another Cryptocurrency Exchange Hack Hits Japan

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.

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New Coinbase Additions: Ethereum Classic and Crypto Index Fund

Coinbase dominated headlines across the space this week with a pair of significant developments. The San Francisco–based exchange announced on Monday, June 11, its intention to add Ethereum Classic to its trading platform and then quickly followed the news on Tuesday with the official opening of a crypto index fund.

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$20 Million Ether Hacked From Poorly Configured Ethereum Apps

According to Chinese internet security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab, hackers have stolen $20 million in ether from poorly configured Ethereum mining rigs and third-party applications. Experts at the firm say the cyber-attacks target unsecured Ethereum nodes on the Internet.

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Market’s Start To Re-Balance After Weekend Slide

After a very disappointing start to the week, it looks as if the markets are starting to re-gain some balance after taking on huge losses in the wake of a hack within South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, Coinrail.

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