2020-8-26 18:45 |
A software bug that deposits fake balances into cryptocurrency exchange wallets has been detected in 7,772 ERC-20 tokens worth over $1 billion. origin »
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The Nasdaq-listed company that allegedly used 83 tons of fake gold bars as collateral to secure loans worth about $2 billion from multiple financial institutions in China is now in default and facing several class-action lawsuits.
2020-8-10 22:30 | |
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In the first six months of 2020, scammers made off with about $24 million in bitcoin, as per the Twitter bot Whale Alert's latest report. These scams involved giveaways, sextortion, fake exchanges, fake ICO's, bitcoin recovery, video scams, Ponzi schemes, fake tumblers, malware, and so on.
2020-7-14 21:54 | |
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Chinese authorities have seized cryptocurrencies worth about $15 million while bringing down a scam involving fake Huobi tokens. In addition, ten people were arrested while luxury cars and real estate were confiscated.
2020-7-12 22:15 | |
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The gold industry has been shaken after it was discovered that 83 tons of fake gold bars have been used as collateral for loans worth 20 billion yuan from 14 financial institutions to a major gold jewelry manufacturer in Wuhan, China.
2020-7-1 17:10 | |
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Hackers are pocketing thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoin in minutes by broadcasting a fake SpaceX giveaway
2020-6-5 20:43 | |
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San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase is reportedly holding nearly 1 million Bitcoin (BTC) in its cold storage wallets. While digital currency exchanges have been known to fake trading volume, it appears that the amount of funds held in offline storage provides a better picture.
2020-1-25 17:54 | |
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Operator of an allegedly fake crypto mine faces criminal charges from the SEC for fraudulent securities offerings worth $3.5 million
2020-1-10 00:39 | |
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Researchers from cybersecurity firm ESET have uncovered a malicious version of the Tor browser – the program used to access the dark web – and it’s been stealing user‘s Bitcoin. According to ESET, the bad actors were able to steal more than $40,000 worth of Bitcoin.
2019-10-18 14:04 | |
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Recommended pre-reading: https://ethresear. ch/t/minimal-anti-collusion-infrastructure/5413 Alice slowly walks down the old, dusty stairs of the building into the basement. She thinks wistfully of the old days, when quadratic-voting in the World Collective Market was a much simpler process of linking her public key to a twitter account and opening up metamask to start firing off votes.
2019-10-2 04:03 | |
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Igor Musatov, a former pro ice hockey player who lives in Russia, has recently been detained in relation to a case in which around $700,000 USD worth of Bitcoin (BTC) was swindled from the CEO of a technology company.
2019-9-18 00:44 | |
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US watchdogs have got hold of two Canadians for a betrayal of $233,220 worth BTC with a fake HitBTC twitter account. Scammers Pretended to be Customer Service Reps of HitBTC Two citizens of surrey, a city of British Colombia, ostensibly stole 23.
2019-8-24 23:22 | |
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English and Dutch authorities have arrested six people who created a fake crypto exchange website that managed to steal around €24 million worth of crypto from more than 4000 victims in over 12 countries according to a Europol press release, June 25, 2018.
2019-6-30 20:00 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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By CCN: John de Mol, who is behind the reality television hit show “Big Brother,” blames Facebook for scammers using his likeness on fraudulent bitcoin-fueled ads that stole nearly $2 million from investors.
2019-6-6 22:30 | |
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A Brazilian cryptocurrency crime cartel has been shut down after conning over 55,000 investors for over $200 million. The cartel ran an unlicensed financial institution without authorization from Brazil‘s Central Bank.
2019-5-22 12:25 | |
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It’s time for Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines. Here’s what happened. 1. Binance says it will resume deposits and withdrawals on its platform on Tuesday.
2019-5-13 10:58 | |
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Chinese authorities were able to uncover a fraudulent mining scheme that stole approximately $293 million from crypto users. As reported by the local news outlet 8BTC, a fake Chinese company called Lianxin Tech, sold more than 300,000 units of mining hardware to users in just a few months. Investors believed that they were going to […]
2019-5-12 19:10 | |
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By CCN. com: An expert witness has filed an affidavit in the Kleiman v. Wright case, which alleges that Craig Wright stole billions of dollars worth of bitcoins from Dave Kleiman either before or after he passed away.
2019-4-30 19:26 | |
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Both the medium and the short term trends are in a range moving outlook presently. Traders need to be wary of fake breakout or false breakdown while strong market movement eventually occurs. BNB/USD Medium-term Trend: Ranging Distribution territories: $21, $22, $23 Accumulation territories: $16, $15, $14 The trade worth of BNB/USD pair has been in […]
2019-4-10 15:11 | |
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It’s Monday, which means there’s a weekend’s worth of cryptocurrency and blockchain news to catch up on. Here are the headlines. 1. Despite giving up on its proprietary cryptocurrency, Citibank isn’t ready to leave the world of blockchain for good.
2019-3-25 11:51 | |
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In a joint operation with police forces from the U. K. and Germany, Europol arrested an individual they believe was responsible for the creation of a fake IOTA wallet seed generator which stole around $11 million worth of IOTA in 2017, Europol announced in a press release on January 23, 2019.
2019-1-28 10:00 | |
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Several of South Korea’s top crypto exchanges have found themselves in hot water, with executives at a couple of exchanges facing criminal charges and jail time. According to a news report on the Korean website Blockinpress, the CEO of Komid, a Korean crypto exchange, has received a three-year prison sentence for committing fraud against investors by artificially inflating the exchange’s actual trading volume.
2019-1-23 00:57 | |
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Hackers managed to steal close to $900,000 worth of Bitcoin from Electrum wallet users via a phishing attack. While the attacks seem to have come to a halt, Electrum Devs say the hackers can launch new exploits since the issue hasn’t been permanently fixed.
2018-12-28 15:00 | |
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The supposed Ethereum killer EOS apparently has significantly fewer active users than assumed. In addition, 27 dApps are said to have significant weaknesses. These allowed hackers to gain EOS tokens worth around USD 740,000 within the last six months.
2018-12-11 03:20 | |
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Update 2:23PM ET: Well, that was fast. Rozetked has informed us it now believes the leak is fake. What follows is the original post. By all indications, the PlayStation 5 is not supposed to arrive until 2020, but that isn’t stopping the internet from doing its thing.
2018-11-28 20:10 | |
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Colorado Securities Commissioner Gerald Rome has issued a new batch of cease-and-desist orders against unregistered Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) operating in the state, taking the total number of signed orders against ICOs in Colorado to 18.
2018-11-22 19:23 | |
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Target has officially confirmed its Twitter account got hacked to promote a malicious cryptocurrency giveaway scam, promising over $31 million worth of Bitcoin to naive investors. “Early this morning, Target’s Twitter account was inappropriately accessed” a company spokesperson told Hard Fork in an email.
2018-11-13 18:09 | |
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North Korean cybercrime hacking group The Lazarus Group is currently the biggest crypto hacking syndicate in the world, having stolen millions worth of cryptocurrencies from online exchanges.
2018-10-20 00:22 | |
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The collateral damage from Bitcoin’s epic inflation bug continues to spread. The developers of small-cap cryptocurrency Pigeoncoin have confirmed hackers successfully exploited the vulnerability to print 235 million Pigeoncoins, worth around $15,000.
2018-10-3 14:40 | |
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Cryptocriminals have exploited an enormous security vulnerability on the Newdex decentralized digital assets exchange to steal nearly $58,000 from customers, by creating 1 billion fake EOS tokens, reported The Next Web on September 18, 2018.
2018-9-21 18:00 | |
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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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The U. S. FBI and law enforcement in South Korea and Japan have arrested two people in connection to phishing scam that stole $800,000 worth of Ripple (CRYPTO: XRP) tokens in a joint operation reported last week.
2018-9-17 20:00 | |
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There have been growing concerns regarding the overall cryptocurrency trading volume being manipulated. Proving such bold claims is always very difficult, as there is a serious lack of transparency on behalf of exchanges.
2018-9-11 11:26 | |
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A report from the Blockchain Transparency Institute determines that billions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency trading volume is fake. But who is the Blockchain Transparency Institute?
2018-8-30 23:54 | |
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Two fraudsters from Serbia deceived the bitcoin seller from South Korea and paid him for bitcoins wirh counterfeit euro notes, drawn in Photoshop. The damage amounted to €2 million.
2018-8-24 22:28 | |
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A South Korean businessman has unfortunately lost $2. 3 million worth of bitcoin after he exchanged the cryptocurrency for crude, photocopied fake Euros. The Hard Fork reported on August 20, 2018, that a Serbian man and his accomplice managed to lure the South Korean businessman with the false intention of investing in his business.
2018-8-23 08:00 | |
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Things have turned sour for a South Korean businessman involved in an offline peer-to-peer cryptocurrency scam. The businessman swapped his digital currency for euros that turned out to be fake. Details of the Scam A South Korean businessman who runs a cryptocurrency company in Singapore had Bitcoin worth approximately $2.
2018-8-20 23:00 | |
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Being fooled into investing in a scam ICO, or in a broken cryptocurrency is heartbreaking, but being fooled into swapping your Bitcoin millions for fake banknotes takes it to a new level. According to new reports, one South Korean businessman has fallen victim of just that, a scam that involved his millions being swapped for €2 million worth of fake banknotes.
2018-8-20 16:00 | |
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BitAngels founder Michael Terpin has filed a $224 million lawsuit against telecoms provider AT&T, alleging that its negligence led him to lose about $24 million worth of cryptocurrency to fraudsters, according to a CNBC report.
2018-8-16 23:14 | |
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Facebook today revealed that, just in time for the American midterm elections, it’s uncovered a new spate of fake news pages guilty of “coordinated inauthentic behavior. ” In total, Facebook identified 8 pages, 17 profiles, and 7 Instagram accounts involved in this suspicious behavior.
2018-7-31 22:52 | |
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A whopping $8 billion worth of Ether (ETH) was traded yesterday over a 24-hour period. A single exchange was responsible for $5 billion worth of that trading volume, which alone is ten times the trading volume of Bitcoin.
2018-7-30 20:51 | |
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A whopping $8 billion worth of Ether (ETH) was traded yesterday over a 24-hour period. A single exchange was responsible for $5 billion worth of that trading volume, which alone is ten times the trading volume of Bitcoin.
2018-7-29 02:45 | |
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A paper published by the Bank of Finland explains why cryptocurrencies will never become a form of money.
A paper published by the Bank of Finland explains why cryptocurrencies will never become a form of money.