Tagged: hack

December 24, 2020 @ 4:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Security team at Gemini Trust Company, LLC (Gemini), a digital currency exchange and custodian, has revealed that they’ve seen a significant increase in the number of crypto-related scams, as virtual currencies continued to gain popularity over the past year. Gemini Security explains that scams… Read More

December 24, 2020 @ 9:28 am By JD Alois  |  

A Blast from the Past. Bitgrail, a bankrupt crypto exchange that previously operated in Italy, has surfaced in the media once again. Back in 2018 news emerged of a significant crypto theft of around $150 million in Nano (XRB). At that time a post on… Read More

December 22, 2020 @ 9:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ron Stoner, a crypto-security expert and newly appointed Head of Security at Casa, a company focused on developing security and custody solutions for Bitcoin (BTC), notes that we’re living in a world that heavily depends on “the connectivity between our physical and digital identities.” Stoner,… Read More

December 21, 2020 @ 8:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Ledger, a crypto wallet provider based in Paris, France, has apparently experienced a security breach according to a tweet from the company. Ledger stated yesterday that they have been alerted to the dump of a customer database on Raidforum. The company said that it is… Read More

December 15, 2020 @ 7:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On December 14, 2020 (at 09:40 am UTC), CertiK Skynet discovered a very large transaction from Hugh Karp, Founder of Nexus Mutual, a “people powered” alternative to insurance built on Ethereum, which transferred 370,000 NXM tokens to an unknown cryptocurrency account. The total value of… Read More

October 26, 2020 @ 9:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Dr. Amrit Kumar, President and Chief Scientific Officer of Zilliqa, an enterprise-grade blockchain development platform. Many of the more popular iterations of blockchain are not sufficiently robust to handle the high transaction rates needed today – not to mention what… Read More

October 20, 2020 @ 5:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Web 3.0 related projects Mysterium Network and Sentinel have established an alliance that will focus on protecting Internet users from data hacks, cybercrime, and excessive surveillance activities while they’re conducting activities online. According to a release, the new “decentralized” VPN (dVPN) alliance is currently open… Read More

October 16, 2020 @ 11:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood, a modern trading platform that offers both traditional securities as well as cryptocurrency trading options, has confirmed that a limited number of its customer accounts were targeted by cybercriminals. However, Robinhood clarified that its service platform itself was not compromised. Hackers reportedly managed to… Read More

October 4, 2020 @ 4:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis, a leading blockchain analysis and security firm, has provided an update regarding the recent KuCoin exchange hack, which led to around $280 million in digital assets being stolen (according to estimates confirmed by many industry participants). Chainalysis noted that on September 25, 2020, hackers… Read More

September 28, 2020 @ 10:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of the Ocean Protocol, which allows software engineers to build marketplaces and other apps to privately and securely publish, exchange, and consume data, confirmed (on September 28) that on September 27, 2020, the Ocean Protocol Foundation had initiated a hard fork or backward-incompatible… Read More

August 10, 2020 @ 4:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ethereum Classic Labs (ETC Labs), the core developer and organization for the Ethereum Classic (ETC) blockchain, has partnered up with crypto-sleuth firm CipherTrace and Kobre & Kim to uncover the individuals involved in the recent attacks on the Ethereum Classic blockchain. According to a release,… Read More

July 31, 2020 @ 3:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

  A 17-year-old teenager in Hillsborough County, Florida has been arrested in relation to the high profile Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) hack that recently occurred. Hillsborough county where Tampa is located.   BREAKING: Hillsborough State Attorney @AndrewWarrenFL announces arrest of 17-year-old Graham Ivan Clark in “Bit-Con” hack… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 5:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dave.com, which aims to be the finance version of David and Goliath taking on the big banks and “helping millions with money challenges,” has confirmed that a security breach took place on its platform. Dave, which claims to have “reinvented” many areas of traditional finance,… Read More

July 17, 2020 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Twitter continues to dig through the rubble following the epic Twitter hack that saw approximately 130 high profile Twitter accounts hijacked with Tweets distributing a Bitcoin trap for the unsuspecting. Thank you for your continued patience and understanding while we investigate this incident. We’ll continue… Read More

July 16, 2020 @ 4:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

The dust is yet to settle in the Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) hack that saw multiple high profile accounts hacked. Twitter continues to dig through the breech and earlier today, Twitter provided some additional insight as to how the individual was able to exploit the platform. Tough… Read More

July 12, 2020 @ 11:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based digital asset exchange Cashaa has reportedly suffered a security breach which led to  hackers allegedly stealing over 336 Bitcoins (BTC), an amount valued at just over $3.1 million at the time of writing. Cashaa confirmed that it has suspended all the cryptocurrency-related transfers on… Read More

June 10, 2020 @ 3:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinsquare, a Canadian crypto exchange, has responded to the reports regarding a “hack” and data breach that apparently revealed data of 50,000 users. As the story goes, Coinsquare was approached by a reporter at Vice that claimed to have seen a sample of the stolen… Read More

May 25, 2020 @ 12:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

SIM Swaps, the nefarious act when criminals surreptitiously take over your mobile phone with a different SIM card, hit crypto lending platform BlockFi earlier this month. BlockFi quickly posted an “incident report” outlining the scam: “From approximately 07:17 UTC to 08:43 UTC on May 14,… Read More

May 8, 2020 @ 6:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Michael Terpin has sued 18-year old Ellis Pinsky, a high school senior living in the posh New York City suburb of Irvington in Westchester County. Terpin alleges that Pinsky was the perpetrator of a “sophisticated cybercrime spree” that saw over $100 million stolen in cryptocurrency… Read More

April 28, 2020 @ 9:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

dForce, a Chinese decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that recently experienced a hack that led to the loss of around $25 million worth of cryptocurrency, confirmed on April 27, 2020 that it will be compensating all its users for their stolen funds. This, after the digital… Read More