2024-11-20 12:59 |
A crypto investor lost a substantial amount of USDT tokens to a phishing address but eventually witnessed a return of the funds hours later. Data from Tronscan shows that the user with the wallet address “TGr…XAE” mistakenly transferred $129 million… origin »
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A trader who lost $25 million after accidentally copying and pasting the wrong transfer address is offering a $2.5 million reward to white hackers in the hopes of getting their money back.
2024-11-13 01:23 | |
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A whale address lost a substantial amount of DAI tokens to a phishing attack after carelessly signing a fraudulent transaction. On-chain data confirms that the losses amounted to a whopping $55.47 million in Dai (DAI). According to an X post…
2024-8-21 12:31 | |
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Pink Drainer lost 10 ETH ($30,000) to an address poisoning scam, exploiting address similarities. Attackers mimicked Pink Drainer’s wallet address to deceive them into sending funds. The attack comes days after Pink Drainer announced ceasing operations.
2024-7-9 14:00 | |
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$ONDO has recently lost its support and is now trading at a critical level, presenting a potentially intriguing buying opportunity, though it may still be too early to make definitive conclusions. Nine hours ago, a whale with the address 0xBef deposited 3 million $ONDO, worth approximately $2.95 million, to Bybit. […]
2024-7-8 06:09 | |
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“The scammers have been scammed” — notorious crypto-draining took kit just lost 10 ETH to a wallet poisoning attack.
2024-7-8 05:08 | |
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A permit phishing attack appears to have siphoned 1,807 liquid staked Ether from the victim's wallet address.
2024-5-28 17:40 | |
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An investor just fell victim to a phishing attack, losing over $101,000 in multiple cryptocurrencies across several blockchains. According to the Blockchain security firm PeckShield, the address lost over 237.
2024-5-20 12:06 | |
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After the harrowing incident where a trader lost roughly $71 million in Wrapped Bitcoin, Binance researchers have developed an algorithm to fight against address poisoning attacks. The post Binance develops algorithm to combat address poisoning scams appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2024-5-19 15:04 | |
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In a concerning turn of events, an anonymous crypto trader has lost approximately $71 million worth of assets in an address poisoning scam. This incident has roused much tension in the crypto ecosystem, underlining the need for improved safety measures.
2024-5-4 14:30 | |
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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.
2024-5-4 20:06 | |
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Blockchain security firm Cyvers Alert reported that an unnamed crypto trader lost 1,155 Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), equivalent to $70. 5 million worth, to address poisoning. The firm said: “Are we mistaken, or has someone truly lost $68 million worth of WBTC? Our system has detected another address falling victim to address poisoning, losing 1,155 WBTC.
2024-5-3 18:45 | |
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A cryptocurrency user has lost $68 million worth of wrapped bitcoin (WBTC) after falling victim to an "address poisoning" exploit, according to blockchain security firm CertiK.
2024-5-4 17:07 | |
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Dozens of Safe Wallet users have lost millions worth of crypto due to a recent wave of address poisoning attacks. In an X post on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023 analysts at Scam Sniffer said that an unknown scammer stole more…
2023-12-4 10:39 | |
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The crypto space still presents risks like scams, hacks, rug pulls, etc. In another troubling event, a crypto whale lost over $24 million worth of assets in a massive phishing scam. In this case, the victim address is regarded as a major liquidity provider on the Uniswap Decentralized Exchange (DEX), supplying over $1.6 million worth […]
2023-9-8 14:30 | |
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In a forward-thinking post to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list, renowned Bitcoin Core developer and founder of OpenTimestamps, Peter Todd, has advanced the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 352 (BIP-352) for integrating user-defined expiration dates to silent payment addresses in a bid to address concerns related to compromised or lost wallets.
2023-8-16 17:00 | |
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Address outflows from whales contributed heavily to ETH’s latest sell pressure. Some whales are re-accumulating, but it may not be enough to turn the ship around. Ethereum [ETH] has been oThe post Ethereum addresses fall to 8-month lows, but all's not lost appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2023-7-22 10:30 | |
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ECOMI and it’s NFT platform VeVe are carving out a unique niche in NFTs. You never know what may happen to that old Spider Man comic you once loved but lost or threw out. What if that same comic book could be bought and saved online only to grow in value? ECOMI and VeVe are looking to address exactly that.
2021-9-23 07:13 | |
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In what appears to be the largest DeFi attack to date, cross-chain protocol Poly Network has been hacked for more than half a billion dollars. “We are sorry to announce that PolyNetwork was attacked on BinanceChain, Ethereum and Polygon,” tweeted the team on Tuesday while sharing the hacker’s address where the assets have been transferred.
2021-8-10 18:02 | |
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The Dutch Central Bank has lost a legal battle over its uninformed and bureaucratic bitcoin address verification requirements.
2021-5-22 15:37 | |
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Let's say you've made a mistake and sent your BTC to the wrong address. After googling for a solution and reading FAQ sections on Coinbase and Blockchain. info, you will most likely decide that your transaction is lost forever.
2021-1-6 12:40 | |
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High Karp, Founder of decentralized insurance platform Nexus Mutual, saw his personal address attacked earlier today, following which, he lost funds worth over $8 million. In fact, according to reportThe post Nexus Mutual Founder's personal address hacked for over $8 million appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-12-14 16:13 | |
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Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao revealed that a Binance user accidentally sent 800 BNB to a smart contract address on the Binance Smart Chain, effectively losing the coins forever. Zhao in a tweet revealed that the user pleaded for the platform to help him recover his lost coins, which are worth $20,000.
2020-9-13 03:24 | |
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Tether has recovered and returned 1 mln USDT to the owner who mistakenly sent it to the Swerve token contract and would have lost it if Tether had not interfered
2020-9-12 11:35 | |
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After a user mistakenly sent $1 million worth of USDT to Swerve’s token contract, Tether’s CTO Paolo Ardoino reached out to the community saying that the company would be able to recover the funds were ERC-20 USDT stuck in an Ethereum address.
2020-9-9 11:26 | |
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While DeFi continues to develop at lightning speed, there is a steady stream of reminders of just how dangerous it can be—particularly for less experienced hands. According to a tweet posted on Sept 8, a user mistakenly sent one million dollars worth of Tether (USDT) to the wrong address.
2020-9-8 13:45 | |
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50 Bitcoins that have been mined in the network’s first month have just been moved from an address Craig Wright claimed he owned. The address was part of a list of 16,000 addresses delivered by the bonded courier in January this year, to which Craig claims he had lost the keys to. This poses a...
2020-5-21 01:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Blockchain Data Science Startup Endor Wins MetLife Korea ContractIn the era of big data, it’s easy to get lost in the deluge. In many ways, the same thing can be said about the startup economy where new platforms are continually emerging to address new problems with better solutions.
2019-6-20 19:28 | |
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There are over $2m of Ether and more than $15m of tokens in Ethereum’s 0x0 address reveals Bitstamp. The largest amount of the cryptocurrencies were sent through a mistake and there is a possibility that the digital assets have been lost forever.
2019-6-16 00:33 | |
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Bitfinex and the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) legal sparring in relation to $850 million in missing funds escalated with another round of court filings this past weekend.
2019-5-7 01:42 | |
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Bitfinex, an exchange that lost the second largest amount of bitcoin to date, has withdrawn an additional 12. 8k BTC from its cold wallet, latest data shows. Address Details The receiving address, (whose owner is unknown) has received smaller amounts of Bitcoin very recently.
2019-4-30 16:00 | |
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Julian Assange, co-founder of Wikileaks and early Bitcoin supporter, was arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and faces extradition to the U. S. on conspiracy charges.
2019-4-12 19:27 | |
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Depending on what country you live in, your cryptocurrency will be subject to different tax rules. The questions below address implications within the United States, specifically, but similar issues arise around the world.
2019-3-29 18:20 | |
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When leaked pictures of Samsung’s latest smartphone went viral, the crypto sphere lost its mind over a singular feature: a built-in cryptocurrency wallet. Samsung would quickly deny rumors that the S10 contained a baked-in hardware wallet.
2019-3-13 22:31 | |
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Nearly one and a half years ago when Alyssa Milano asked women to click MeToo on their social media platforms, the #MeToo movement was born. Since then millions of women have indicated through social media that they too have been victims of sexual harassment or assault.
2019-3-11 18:36 | |
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QuadrigaCX Exchange’s founder, Gerald Cotten, passed away more than two months ago, and with his death, the keys to the exchange’s cold storage allegedly went to the grave with him.
2019-2-26 22:21 | |
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For investors whose first time investing in bitcoin was in 2018 or after late 2017, there is a high likelihood that they have incurred substantial losses for the fiscal year of 2018 if they haven’t sold yet.
2018-12-29 02:01 | |
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Wex, the digital asset trading platform that inherited the now-defunct BTC-e exchange, has lost its wex. nz domain. According to New Zealand’s Domain Name Commission (DNC), the internet address was registered with fake contact details.
2018-11-23 06:40 | |
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The U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a press release on Friday, November 9, 2018, stating that it had fined Arizona resident Joseph Kim for perpetrating a fraudulent cryptocurrency trading scheme against his former employer and other investors.
2018-11-13 22:55 | |
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On the latest episode of Season 2 of Distributed Dialogues, the hosts took a deep dive into the state of political repression in the People’s Republic of China.
2018-10-31 21:00 | |
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The founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin has just revealed how much Ethereum he actually owns. In a recent tweet, Buterin responds to accusations by an economist at NYU and crypto critic Nouriel Roubini (also known as Dr Doom) who has claimed that Buterin is a scammer and a thief.
2018-10-11 16:00 | |
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Creditors of Mt. Gox, the defunct cryptocurrency exchange, can now start submitting proofs of claim in a newly approved rehabilitation process, according to an update posted on the exchange’s website.
2018-8-27 17:14 | |
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In a post published Monday morning, Coinrail said hackers obtained about 30 percent of its coin and token reserves. A wallet address reportedly belonging to the attackers showed the value of the pilfered coins was as much as $37 million.
2018-6-12 23:58 | |
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World Liberty Financial has carried out an emergency burn-and-reallocate action to recover millions in WLFI from wallets compromised before launch. World Liberty Financial has taken a major step to recover WLFI tokens that were taken from wallets compromised before the…
Major crypto wallets, including Metamask and Phantom, have joined forces to launch a real-time phishing defense network in partnership with the Security Alliance, also known as SEAL. The new defense network will “create a decentralized immune system for crypto security…
Scammers are specifically targeting WLFI holders, says blockchain security expert behind SlowMist.
Crypto phishing websites are becoming increasingly difficult to stop, and big tech is not doing enough to stop them.
A new phishing campaign is targeting cryptocurrency users by impersonating Aave, one of the most widely used decentralized finance platforms. On June 20, web3 security firm Scam Sniffer issued a warning that fake Aave (AAVE) ads were appearing at the…
Ex-Animoca exec had his crypto wallets drained after downloading a fake Zoom update during a phishing attack linked to North Korean hacking group Lazarus. Mehdi Farooq, an investment partner at Hypersphere and ex-Animoca Brands exec, revealed in a post on…
Criminals are using in-person crypto events to launch phishing campaigns and impersonation scams, Kraken warns. By now, it’s no secret that crypto is becoming mainstream, and with it, a bigger target.