2022-10-21 17:42 |
A Bitcoin hacker and his millionaire victim are taking on telecommunications giant AT&T
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A 15-year-old crypto hacker that swindled crypto investor Michael Terpin out of millions has agreed to pay $22 million to the victim, according to a court filing in the Southern District of New York.
2022-10-15 14:53 | |
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Mirror protocol on Terra is becoming a governance attack victim
2021-12-26 17:41 | |
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Over the weekend, a global cryptocurrency exchange, AscendEX, was brought to its knees as it became the latest victim of an attack that led to the loss of around $80 million worth of funds from its hot wallets.
2021-12-14 15:15 | |
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The long-suffering DeFi protocol Cream Finance fell victim to a hacker attack. Yes, once again. This time, a vulnerability in the code allowed scammers to steal $130 million in cryptocurrency.
2021-11-1 18:09 | |
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Hacker has not yet moved any portion of the funds from the wallet
2021-9-21 13:10 | |
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Binance released a news item on its website regarding the Incident Resolution Plan for COVER. The coin fell victim to a contract attack on Dec. 28. A mining exploit allowed the hacker to create 40 quadrillion (yes, quadrillion) COVER tokens.
2020-12-31 21:00 | |
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EtherText, a Twitter channel that relays text messages embedded within Ethereum transactions, displayed the message. Someone claiming to be responsible for the hack sent the founder and recent wallet victim, Hugh Karp, an ominous threat.
2020-12-16 17:47 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Liquid has confirmed that it has been hacked, and an investigation into the incident remains ongoing. “Ultimately, they [the hacker] were able to partially compromise the exchange’s infrastructure and access stored documents,” said Mike Kayamori, CEO of Liquid.
2020-11-20 17:20 | |
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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.
2020-9-3 06:44 | |
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In the world of Bitcoin and other crypto assets, theft and hacks are rather common. Michael Terpin fell victim to such theft a few years ago, yet it now seems that the investigation is reaching a new milestone.
2020-5-12 05:00 | |
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A judge has greenlit the lawsuit demanding $240 mln from AT&T for letting Bitcoin thieves port its customer?s phone number
2020-2-26 16:19 | |
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A Chinese investor lost $45 million in bitcoins and BCH as a result of a hacker attack allegedly via SIM swap. Now the victim tries to find support of miners.
2020-2-26 11:55 | |
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Altsbit, a cryptocurrency exchange operating in the Italian market, fell victim of a hacker attack. All funds, including those of customers, were stolen. Another exit scam is suspected.
2020-2-11 16:59 | |
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Maastricht University, located in the Netherlands has reported they became the victim of a ransomware attack that unfolded on December 24 and paid a BTC ransom. All the IT systems at the University have been pulled down and offline by officials for the damages and in efforts to be contained. The malware cyberattack was the […]
2020-2-7 22:30 | |
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More than $300 million worth of bitcoins were withdrawn from Bittrex accounts. Users fear that the exchange fell victim of another tremendous hacker attack, but the exchange itself claims that deposits are safe.
2019-12-5 00:09 | |
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A popular video game live streamer and YouTuber recently fell victim to hackers, temporarily losing many of their online accounts. Days following the reporting of the compromise, the victim’s YouTube channel has mysteriously begun broadcasting a live stream of the Ripple Swell conference, being held in Singapore this week.
2019-11-8 04:18 | |
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Michael Terpin wrote an open letter to the FCC chairman, requesting to take decisive action against SIM swapping after a hacker stole $24 million
2019-10-22 04:27 | |
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Alleged hacker Anthony Tyler Nashatka, also known as “psycho,” faced US federal court yesterday over a plot to steal $1. 4 million worth of cryptocurrency from users of token exchange EtherDelta.
2019-10-12 22:09 | |
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Popular social game developer Zynga has reportedly become the latest victim of a massive data breach impacting some 218 million Words with Friends accounts. On September 12, the company disclosed that “certain player account information may have been illegally accessed by outside hackers,” but didn’t disclose any details about the scope of the breach and the number of players who may have had their information stolen.
2019-10-1 09:40 | |
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The website of a Florida-based car parts dealer is currently out of service after a hacker hijacked the domain name and shuttered its hosting provider’s account to ransom it for Bitcoin. Per legal documents and a ransom note that was produced in court where the victim obtained a temporary order preventing the domain name from […] The post Hacked Florida Auto Shop Refuses to Fork Out $100,000 Bitcoin Ransom appeared first on CCN.com
2019-9-13 19:07 | |
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Coinspeaker Bitpoint Exchange Lost $32 Million in Cryptocurrency Amid Recent Hacker AttackJapanese licensed cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint has become a new victim of hackers and lost $32 million in crypto assets in the recent attack.
2019-7-12 13:04 | |
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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.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
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Binance fell victim to a successful hacker attack. Cybercriminals managed to withdraw 7000 BTC from the hot wallet of the exchange.
2019-5-16 22:42 | |
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By CCN: Hackers infiltrated Microsoft Outlook email users’ accounts in order to steal crypto, including bitcoin. The scope of the cyber-theft is still as-yet undetermined, but it appears to be more expansive than first thought.
2019-4-30 19:45 | |
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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.
2019-4-2 21:54 | |
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According to a recent report, Joel Ortiz, the 20-year-old student from Boston who was indicted by prosecutors in Santa Clara, California, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in what is believed to be the very first SIM swapping conviction in the United States.
2019-2-6 01:17 | |
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It’s Monday Morning, you should know how this works by now. Dive in for a wrap up of the weekend’s blockchain and cryptocurrency news. 1. Peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading website, Localbitcoins.
2019-1-28 12:35 | |
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Attacker Bags Eight Bitcoin (BTC) In LocalBitcoins Breach The crypto market may have slowed, with Bitcoin (BTC) falling by upwards of 70% during yesteryear, but ambitious attackers have continued their attempts to breach industry upstarts.
2019-1-27 22:09 | |
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SIM swap hacks are becoming very common in the cryptocurrency space. In a recent case, a hacker was able to steal cryptocurrency worth $1 million from a San Francisco-based victim. The 21-year-old hacker also hacked into the phones of numerous Silicon Valley executives.
2018-11-22 19:29 | |
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The recent victim to a cryptojacking attack is U. S. -based non-profit organization Make-A-Wish Foundation’s website. Since March 2018, the hacker has been taking advantage of the Drupal vulnerability to mine Monero cryptocurrency, as per research findings from an independent research lab.
2018-11-21 12:00 | |
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Leading cryptocurrency investor law firm Silver Miller Law has filed suit against cell phone giants AT&T and T-Mobile on behalf of several digital asset investors who were victims of the identity-theft tactic known as “SIM swapping.
2018-11-10 01:35 | |
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Ransomware is a malicious form of software that makes a device unusable until the victim pays the hacker a pre-defined ransom. In most cases, those inflicted with such threats find alternative methods to remove the ransomware, rather than give in to the demands of the bad actors.
2018-9-12 19:38 | |
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North Korean hacking outfit “Lazarus” is now targeting cryptocurrency exchanges. Information security firm Kaspersky Labs has discovered it is exploring new attack vectors and trojanizing cryptocurrency software.
2018-8-23 16:05 | |
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Syscoin, an instant payment cryptocurrency, has fallen victim to a malware attack after a hacker reportedly inserted a tainted Syscoin Windows client into the project’s GitHub account. Syscoin Compromised According to the project’s development team, a hacker replaced the official Windows client with another version containing malware.
2018-6-17 20:00 | |
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