2020-2-22 12:18 |
Dovey Wan thinks that a reported $30 million hack on a Bitcoin Cash wallet will pile pressure on the altcoin
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The activation of several previously dormant Bitcoin wallets has sparked rumors of a mass hack. On April 24, @whale_alert notified the community of a dormant address containing 1,000 BTC ($27 million) becoming active after a 12-year break.
2023-4-25 12:00 | |
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Yes, the Twitter hack was basically a giant bitcoin scam. But the fallout is showing the world the strengths of cryptocurrency and decentralization.
2020-7-20 00:01 | |
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Bitcoin suffered a short period of selling in early trading but has bounced back, seemingly immune to Wednesday's Twitter hack.
2020-7-17 23:45 | |
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Fortress Investment Group, a Mt. Gox creditor, has increased its offer to victims of the infamous Bitcoin exchange hack. In its newest offer to victims, Fortress offered $1300 per bitcoin or an estimated 88% of account value at the time of the hack.
2020-2-20 21:41 | |
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Tone Vays takes shots at IOTA, Ethereum (ETH), and Blockstack to show why decentralization is important
2020-2-14 11:09 | |
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A Reddit user shares some data, assuming that an address associated with the MtGox hack still holds around 79,000 BTC ? the funds have remained unmoved since 2011
2020-2-6 14:23 | |
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The security research team at Kraken has found a way to hack into the popular Trezor bitcoin hardware wallet. In merely 15 minutes with physical access to the device, the team extracted seeds from the wallet.
2020-1-31 17:57 | |
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As the estimation of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies goes up, so does the interest for hackers to hack your wallets, so securing your cryptocurrency wallets has never been more critical. This is by no means a new problem.
2020-1-25 01:21 | |
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Rumors were rife about a possible security breach at OKEx last Saturday after 16,000 Bitcoins were transferred from the cryptocurrency exchange to an unknown wallet in multiple transactions. Expectedly, the unfounded report soon set off alarm bells among traders using the platform.
2020-1-22 15:13 | |
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CZ Binance insists that centralized crypto exchanges are safer than the memory of wallet owners. In response Jameson Lopp recalls hackers stealing $40 mln from Binance
2020-1-20 12:19 | |
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Thousands of bomb threats against public facilities have been reported in Russia after a news report linked a 2017 exchange hack of $450M in Bitcoin to prominent Russian businessman Konstantin Malofeev.
2020-1-6 19:20 | |
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NiceHash, a marketplace for renting mining hashpower, has announced that it is suspending its plans to repay customers who lost their funds during a December 2017 hack. That attack caused the company to lose over 4700 Bitcoin, worth $80 million at the time.
2019-12-19 13:50 | |
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The crypto markets were steady this week following large sell-offs earlier in November. The price of market benchmark, Bitcoin, rose by 4%. The week's major news story was the hack of popular South Korean exchange UPbit where ~US$50 million of ETH was stolen.
2019-12-3 14:00 | |
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In this week’s Hodler’s Digest, Upbit targeted in devastating hack, cryptojacking malware found on YouTube, and Bitcoin’s “rare opportunity” for December
2019-12-3 22:44 | |
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Bitcoin continues to advance on Thursday, following yesterday’s surge above $7,500. Traders quickly brushed aside the news of the UpBit exchange hack, and focused on more positive developments such as fresh record trading volumes on Bakkt’s Bitcoin futures exchange.
2019-11-28 19:23 | |
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After breaking upwards yesterday, after Upbit?s hack, Bitcoin price surged to the $7,200 area, traders say that BTC needs just a little more growth to get over $9,000
2019-11-28 12:23 | |
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Ethereum has been closely tracking Bitcoin’s price action over the past several days and weeks, which has led ETH to incur overwhelmingly bearish price action. However, BTC’s bullish response to an overnight dip has similarly allowed ETH to begin forming some potentially bullish technical formations.
2019-11-28 02:00 | |
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The Bitcoin price made an unexpected move that resulted in a lot of pain for those who shorted the Upbit drop
2019-11-27 16:55 | |
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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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BTC did not manage to keep the $7,200 level, once again sliding to a lower tier.
2019-11-27 13:41 | |
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Bitcoin price: $7K support wavers as Upbit hack reports hit
2019-11-27 12:43 | |
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During the latest episode of The Portal, Vitalik Buterin chronicled his journey, from being a reporter at Bitcoin Magazine to introducing the world to Ethereum; Buterin's path has been tumultuous.
2019-11-24 00:30 | |
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As the estimation of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies goes up, so does the interest for hackers to hack your wallets, so securing your cryptocurrency wallets has never been more critical. This is by no means a new problem.
2019-11-18 21:21 | |
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Ethereum is at an important phase for its future development, as it is preparing for the release of Ethereum 2. 0, a proposed hard fork. However, the overwhelming majority of its users disagree with the idea of implementing a hard fork after the hack with the goal of reverting chain activity.
2019-11-7 07:40 | |
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Gregg Bennett, a Seattle-based angel investor and bitcoin ‘hodler’ has dragged Bittrex cryptocurrency exchange to court for allegedly aiding a SIM swap attack that allowed hackers to steal his 100 BTC ($923,700).
2019-11-5 10:00 | |
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Digital asset exchange Bittrex is reportedly being sued over a SIM swap-related incident that allowed hackers to steal 100 Bitcoin (BTC), which are valued at around $1 million at current market prices. The case appears...
2019-11-4 11:18 | |
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Following the mammoth BitMEX user data leak, the bitcoin exchange’s Twitter account was allegedly hacked. While under the perpetrator’s control, the account tweeted an ominous warning: “Take your BTC and run.
2019-11-4 18:28 | |
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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.
2019-11-1 00:37 | |
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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 […]
2019-11-1 23:28 | |
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The recent Bitcoin (BTC) jump from $7,300 to $9,700 has renewed bullish expectations. Just three days ago, you had analysts calling for a return to the $3,000 lows — gold bug Peter Schiff even noted that $2,000 was in the cards; now, all eyes are on new all-time highs for Bitcoin.
2019-10-28 15:00 | |
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Infamous black market portal BriansClub made a fortune by trading stolen credit card data for Bitcoin at the expense of millions of victims worldwide. The scammers running the site, however, got slapped by the hands of karma a few months back.
2019-10-18 13:15 | |
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A ransomware victim that paid Bitcoin to unlock his files has enacted sweet vengeance on his attackers, by hacking them right back. As part of his retaliation, Germancement on the BleepingComputer forum yesterday morning, but urged readers to understand that he’s “not the bad guy here.
2019-10-8 17:46 | |
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Jennifer Robertson — the widow of late QuadrigaCX founder, Gerald ‘Gerry’ Cotten, has agreed to hand over assets belonging to the defunct bitcoin exchange in compensation of affected users. Liquidating Assets Belonging to QuadrigaCX Bitcoin Exchange According to CBC News, Robertson is set to hand over QuadrigaCX assets still in her possession to Ernst & Young — Trustees of the bitcoin exchange’s liquidation proceedings.
2019-10-8 13:30 | |
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If it is not Bitcoin or Ethereum, making a quick name for itself can be a difficult task in the crypto-industry for any coin. Despite the fact that many crypto-projects launch every day, very few sustain themselves for a commanding period of time in the market.
2019-10-7 10:10 | |
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A recent ruling by a court in South Korea could see cryptocurrency exchanges held responsible for compensating hack victims. The post South Korean Court Sets Compensation Precedent for Cryptocurrency Exchanges appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-10-3 21:54 | |
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A Russian law firm claims it can recover funds for victims of the 2014 Mt. Gox hack. But critics see some flaws in the outlined plan. The post Latest Pitch to Recover Lost Mt. Gox Bitcoin Has Critics Raising Red Flags appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-9-14 01:02 | |
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Prominent law firm from Russia Zheleznikov and Partners claims that a proposed legal action in the country can recover the funds lost in the Mt. Gox hack. They claim that they can recover an estimated 170,000 to 200,000 Bitcoins from the Russian parties who received the stolen tokens. The value of these tokens will touch […]
2019-9-13 19:56 | |
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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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A Russian law firm says it can help Mt Gox creditors recover up to $2 billion worth of bitcoins stolen in the 2014 hack.
2019-9-13 00:45 | |
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We put a lot of faith in passwords, specifically in the private keys which secure our Bitcoin and crypto wallets. If someone were to find out or hack our private key, they would gain control over the funds in the wallet.
2019-9-10 15:00 | |
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Following the recent huge Bitcoin transfers from the OKEx exchange, the CEO calms the community down but the comments show users are in doubt suspecting a hack
2019-9-4 13:55 | |
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Yesterday, the CEO of Twitter and Square Inc. , and staunch Bitcoin and crypto supporter, Jack Dorsey, had his personal Twitter account hacked by the way of a SIM-swap attack and SMS-based backdoor.
2019-9-1 23:01 | |
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Over the past week, Bitcoin (BTC) has shed 6. 5%, falling to $9,500 from its former support of $10,000. Despite this downward price action, the fundamentals of the cryptocurrency continue to swell, pointing towards a potential rebound in the coming weeks and months.
2019-9-1 15:00 | |
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Twitter and Square CEO, Jack Dorsey, had his personal Twitter account hacked this week. Whilst in control of the account, the hackers posted a bizarre stream of messages including racial slurs and a bomb threat.
2019-8-31 15:00 | |
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No one remembers the first Mt. Gox hack. It was a small sum, even by 2011’s standards, and the exchange reimbursed all users. The incident was to prove significant, however, for it set in motion a string of attacks on other bitcoin platforms that began the very next day.
2019-8-25 05:10 | |
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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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Bitcoin stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016 has returned to the spotlight as some of the funds move to an unknown wallet. $340,000 of Bitcoin Leaves Hack Wallet According to monitoring resource Whale Alert, which publishes details of major cryptocurrency transactions on Twitter, just over 30 BTC known to have come from Bitfinex left its holding wallet on August 12.
2019-8-13 15:00 | |
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Cybersecurity researchers are always looking for flawed systems in order to expose vulnerabilities. The latest effort was made by a group of researchers who hacked a Canon EOS 80D DSLR camera in order to test a ransomware scheme.
2019-8-13 00:58 | |
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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 […]
2019-8-10 07:38 | |
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An investor lost over $71 million in WBTC to a poisoned address scam, as reported by blockchain security experts CertiK and Cyvers. The post Investor loses $71 million in WBTC, tricked by poisoned address appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
April's crypto exploits and scams saw a 141% decrease with only $25.7M lost, marking a record low since 2021. The post Crypto losses caused by exploits fall 141% in April: CertiK appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Avi Eisenberg’s centi-million dollar exploit of the decentralized Mango Markets trading platform revealed the perverse incentives of bug bounties.
Polygon Labs has announced that it has received ISO 27001 certification.
Chris Larsen, Ripple's co-founder, suffered the heaviest loss of the quarter, with over $110 million drained from his personal wallet.
Staking platform Lido’s share in staked ether has continued to fall, reducing concerns about concentration in the Ethereum network, the report said.
After the block reward drops to 3.125 bitcoins, miners could power down their less efficient machines.