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3, as of July 31, 2020. [update] On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the ...
In June 2018, South Korean exchange Coinrail was hacked, losing over $37M worth of crypto. The hack worsened an already ongoing cryptocurrency selloff by an additional $42 billion. On July 9, 2018, the exchange Bancor, whose code and fundraising had been subjects of controversy, had $23.5 million in cryptocurrency stolen.
The Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was hacked in August 2016. [1] 119,756 bitcoin, worth about US$72 million at the time, were stolen. [1] In February 2022, the US government recovered and seized a portion of the stolen bitcoin, then worth US$3.6 billion, [2] by decrypting a file owned by Ilya Lichtenstein that contained addresses and private ...
All of this a fine reminder of just how much the integrity of crypto depends on secure code. After 15 years without a hack, the code that runs Bitcoin itself can be considered all but bulletproof ...
A hacker was able to compromise one of the industry's biggest names in security by phishing an ex-employee.
September 18, 2023 at 10:30 AM. Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images. Even billionaire NBA owners aren’t immune from crypto exploits. On Monday, Dallas Mavericks owner and Shark Tank investor Mark ...
A day after the FTX hack, the conspirators stole about $590,000 in crypto from an individual’s virtual wallet. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Mt. Gox was a bitcoin exchange based in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. [1] Launched in 2010, it was handling over 70% of all bitcoin (BTC) buys/sells worldwide by early 2014, when it abruptly ceased operations amid revelations of its involvement in the loss/theft of hundreds of thousands of bitcoins, then worth hundreds of millions in US dollars.