Crypto Investor Loses Over $12 Million in Ethereum to ‘Address Poisoning’ Scam

This address poisoning attack follows a similar $50 million theft from last month, showing the increased sophistication of the attackers. The post Crypto Investor Loses Over $12 Million in Ethereum to ‘Address Poisoning’ Scam appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Scammers Fake Luna 2.0 Token Airdrop, Send Million of Tokens to Vitalik Buterin, 3AC and Justin Sun

Scammer was trying to trick users into sending their Luna tokens to a fake airdrop address

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278 Million LUNA Burned Since Do Kwon Posted Burning Address

People keep sending their tokens to dead address, 25 million LUNA gone in 24 hours

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Blockchain Data Indicates $10M Worth Of Ether From The Ronin Exploit In Rotation

More than 5,505 Ether of the Ronin Bridge exploitation seems to be transferred through Tornado Cash, a unique privacy crypto exchange. Blockchain data showed that the address associated with the $625 million Ronin Bridge Attack had begun transferring ether tokens valued at over $10 million.

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Do Kwon Buys 4,000 Bitcoin, Another $100 Million Transferred

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Crypto Market Rallies as Terra Buys 2,830 Bitcoin (BTC) worth $133M

The Terra Foundation has added 2,830 BTC (about $133. 5 million) to its holdings, reaching the $10B in BTC milestone. Earlier on, OKLink discovered the Terra foundation’s Bitcoin wallet address, which has about $1.

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12 Million XRP Goes to Anon Address as XRP Remains Attractive for Investors

Whale has withdrawn 12 million XRP to an unregistered wallet, while XRP is staging a rise of 6.50%

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121 XRP Shifted by Anon Address as XRP and Most of Top 10 Coins Drift into Red

Anonymous addresses and crypto exchanges wire more than 121 million XRP, according to analytics data published recently

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This $20 Million Bitcoin Address Just Activated After 11 Years

A dormant address containing 486.091 Bitcoins ($20,178,658) has just been activated after 11.4 years according to data by blockchain tracking website Whale Alert. The resurgence, which occurred Thursday, 10 Mar 2022 01:45:30 UTC has gotten tongues wagging as to who could have had the patience to it on such value for so long. The wallet, […]

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Ukraine Has Received $108 Million In Crypto Donations Following Kraken And BAYC Donations

On Wednesday, tracked total crypto donations to the  government of Ukraine wallet addresses, charities, and humanitarian initiatives had topped $108 million. The official Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) wallet addresses of the Ukrainian government, as well as a BTC donations address for Come Back Alive, are the top three beneficiaries of such cash. Tracked Donations […]

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$5 Million ETH Transaction Sender Identified, Go Ethereum Offers Solution

A South Korean Ponzi scheme owns the address from which the two transactions with $5 million of Ethereum fees originated. Ethereum developers have already created a solution to prevent similar... The post $5 Million ETH Transaction Sender Identified, Go Ethereum Offers Solution appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Decred Price Analysis - Technicals flip neutral as active address hold at all-time highs

Decred (DCR) launched in 2016 and was originally a fork of the Bitcoin codebase. The cryptocurrency is down 87% from the record high of US$118, established in early May 2018. The market cap currently stands at US$167 million with US$1.65 million traded over the past 24 hours.

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Mark Karpeles Reveals Ownership of New Bitcoin Address

MT Gox’s former CEO, Mark Karpeles, has revealed the ownership of a new bitcoin address that contains some 80,000 bitcoins, worth $750 million. “The 1Feex address contains ~80k BTC stolen.

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Bitfinex Hackers Move Another $4.1 Million Bitcoin in Their Biggest Pay Day Yet

Cyber-thieves from the Bitfinex hack of four years ago continue to cash out, this time transferring the equivalent of $4. 1 million in bitcoin to an unknown wallet address. Crypto tracking tool Whale Alert reports that hackers moved 416 bitcoin (BTC) on June 11.

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Binance Freezes Funds Sent from Address Linked to $49M Upbit Hack

Hackers breached crypto exchange Upbit in November 2019, making off with $49 million in crypto — yesterday they tried to sell stolen Ethereum on Binance With so many exchanges being breached in the past few years, Binance and other major exchanges have resolved to freeze any hack-related funds sent to their platforms.

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Reddit Just Rolled Out an Ethereum-Based Crypto to Over 20 Million Users

Last month, as reported by NewsBTC, leaked screenshots suggested that Reddit was dabbling in Ethereum. Information shared by a user named “MagoCrypto” indicated that the giant social media forum with hundreds of millions of active users had attached an Ethereum address to the accounts of a limited set of users. Mago suggested that from the...

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Whale Transfers Bitcoin Worth $10 Million to Bitstamp; Dump Incoming?

Bitcoins worth $10 million dollars have been transferred to the cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp from an unknown wallet address. Will BTC dump again?  Just two days after Bitcoin’s biggest crash in over 10 months, falling from a value of around $7200 per BTC to under $5500 where it currently resides, a huge transfer of the cryptocurrency has taken place today.

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HEX origin address emptied out, almost $7 million withdrawn

Around $7 million worth of ETH has been withdrawn from an address associated with the HEX cryptocurrency after weeks of speculation that it was headed towards an exit scam. The funds were transferred on Jan.

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Ethereum Co-Founder Doxxed After Stash Sell Off

Ethereum co-founder Jeffrey Wilcke doxxed himself after selling 92,000 Ether, worth over $11 million, because of its connection to his Ethereum Name Service domain. On Christmas Day, approximately 92,000 ETH was transferred to Kraken from an address funded by the Ethereum Foundation dev wallet, as first reported by Trustnodes.

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VeChain Foundation Hacked, $6.5 Million in VET Stolen

The VeChain Foundation was hacked for 1. 1 billion VET tokens worth $6. 5 million. Internal misconduct is likely the cause. Today, at 12:27 a. m. GMT, VeChain’s buyback address was compromised.

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Online sneaker marketplace failed to come clean about 6.8M record data breach

StockX — a popular online marketplace for sneakerheads and streetwear aficionados to trade apparel — is the latest company to fall victim to a massive data breach affecting millions of its users.

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NYC Students Rejoice as Hackers Extort College for $2 Million in Bitcoin

Hackers have successfully breached the network of the New York City-based Monroe College, demanding $2 million in Bitcoin to restore the institution's encrypted data following a carefully-orchestrated ransomware attack.

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Over 20 million addresses now carry more than $1 worth of Bitcoin as unique address numbers pump

Over the past couple of years, Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, has picked up pace in terms of popularity and adoption rates. The surge in the aforementioned metrics has been contributed to by not just the rising number of people getting into crypto, but also mainstream institutions making their debut in the space.

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WikiLeaks Has Received More Than $46 Million in Bitcoin

WikiLeaks may have amassed more than $46 million in Bitcoin based on the number of coins held by its known wallet address. WikiLeaks Sitting on a Fortune? Posting on the Bitcoin subreddit, “Boredguy32” revealed that the controversial organization may have amassed about 4,054 BTC.

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Tether mints 100 million USDT, Bitcoin surges by 1.42% in the subsequent hour, coincidence?

The cryptocurrency market had been speculating that something suspicious has been going on within Bitfinex and Tether ecosystem, as Tether Treasury continuously prints Tether [USDT]. On July 4, Whale Alert alerted the community of Tether Treasury yet again minting 100,000,000 USDT.

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Craig Wright Ordered to Personally Appear at Bitcoin Theft Mediation

Craig Wright has been ordered to appear personally at mediation to address allegations that he stole 1.1 million bitcoin

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$1.5M in Stolen Bitcoin From 2016 Bitfinex Hack Changes Address

Someone has recently moved around $1.5 million in bitcoins stolen from the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange in 2016

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Bitfinex denies role in spooky transfer of $1.37 million in stolen Bitcoin

Bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 is on the move. Earlier today, a combined 172. 54 BTC ($1. 37 million) was mysteriously sent from the hacker‘s wallets to an unknown address. Bitfinex’ marketing director Anneka Dew however told Hard Fork that today’s movements had nothing to do with the company at all.

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Tether [USDT] treasury transfers USDT worth over $10 million to an unknown wallet address; pattern established

The cryptocurrency market saw a sudden surge in the prices of most cryptocurrencies, including Tron. However, this current surge in prices was followed by the large-scale movement of various coins.

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Cryptopia: Huobi exchange responds to allegations of having received stolen Ethereum [ETH]

The New Zealand-based exchange, Cryptopia, has been making headlines since January 2019 for all the wrong reasons. In a recent update to the infamous episode which cost the exchange $16 million in ETH, a report alleged that a portion of the stolen funds were transferred to and received by a Huobi deposit address.

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More than 7,000 Bitcoin stolen from Binance moved to seven BTC addresses

The attackers that stole over $41 million in Bitcoin from Binance have been erratically moving the funds from one address to another. However, as of May 9th, all of the funds have been consolidated into just seven addresses, each one holding around 1,000 bitcoins.

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Binance CEO Addresses Concerns Live After $40 Mln BTC Hack, Rejects Blockchain Reorg Idea

Changpeng Zhao, CEO of major crypto exchange Binance, has devoted his live AMA on Twitter to address community concerns in the wake of yesterday’s $40.7 million hack

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Bitfinex, Attorney General Legal Sparring Continues With New Court Filings

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.

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Moonday Mornings: Bitcoin extortionists are wiping GitHub repositories – unless you pay up

Good morning. It’s Monday, so you know what that means. It’s time for Moonday Mornings, our wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines. 1. Bitcoin extortionists have been wiping GitHub repositories and holding the data to ransom, Bleeping Computer reports.

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Whale Moves $230 Million for 57 Cents Using Bitcoin

A bitcoin whale has moved 40,000 BTC (USD $229,000,000) from one Bitcoin address to another on May 1st for a negligible network fee. A Bitcoin whale has moved over 40,000 BTC or over ($212m) moved from one address (bc1q9sh6544xls87x7skjzyfhkty4wq7z76vn7qzq9) to another (bc1q5shngj24323nsrmxv99st02na6srekfctt30ch).

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Major Darknet Marketplace Wall Street Market Shuttered by Law Enforcement

Wall Street Market, the second-largest darknet market in the world in recent months, has been shut down by international law enforcement agencies, including Europol as well as U.

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Bitcoin whale moved $212 million in cryptocurrency — for just $3.93

An infamous Bitcoin ‘whale’ has moved an enormous cryptocurrency fortune in a single transaction, and the network charged less than $4 in fees. Bitcointalk's famous whale Loaded is moving its 40k BTC stash again.

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Bitcoin Whale Moves $211 Million Worth of BTC as Market Conditions Improve

An anonymous bitcoin whale has moved 40,000 BTC amounting to $211 million from an unknown Bech32 address bc1q9sh6544xls87x7skjzyfhkty4wq7z76vn7qzq9 to another unknown destination wallet with Bech32 address bc1q5shngj24323nsrmxv99st02na6srekfctt30ch in the early hours of today.

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Bitfinex-Tether controversy: Binance’s CZ announces impending transfer of USDT funds to new cold wallet address

The New York Attorney General’s recent allegations suggested the involvement of Tether [USDT] and Bitfinex exchange in a conspiracy to hide the exchange’s loss of $850 million. While the ecosystem slowly recovers from the bearish market in the aftermath of the episode, Binance’s Changpeng Zhao informed his community of followers about an impending “large transaction”.

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How to protect users assets on a blockchain – The Nebulas approach

On April 26th, 2019, RChain posted a blog message stating that their president, Greg Meredith held a meeting with potential investors in Spain during the weekend of April 20, 2019. After a KYC approval, funds from the investor entered 3rd party escrow and RChain distributed 11 million RHOC tokens to the buyers wallet address.

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It Looks as if Another Darknet Market Era Is Coming to an End

Major darknet markets come and go in eras, so it seems, and the current one may be ending. Two of the biggest digital black markets seem to be disappearing, both at the same time.

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