Tagged: electrum

April 13, 2019 @ 10:58 am By Cali Haan  |  

Hackers have launched a 140 000-machine botnet DoS (denial of service) attack against servers hosting popular Bitcoin wallet service Electrum, Hard Fork reports, and millions of dollars of Bitcoins have already been stolen from Electrum wallet users as a result. Electrum is a bitcoin “hot… Read More

December 29, 2018 @ 8:01 am By Cali Haan  |  

Hackers have stolen more than $750 000 USD in Bitcoins from users of the Electrum Bitcoin hot wallet since December 21st, CCN reports. Another outlet places the amount stolen closer to $1 million. A “hot wallet” is a device for storing the “private keys” needed… Read More