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‘Move-to-Earn’ App Stepn Suffers Cyber Attack and Elon Musk Threatens to Call Off Twitter Deal

The most valuable crypto stories for Monday, June 6, 2022.

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“The Hash” hosts discuss Stepn suffering multiple distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks following a recent upgrade. Plus, Elon Musk threatens to terminate his $44 billion Twitter deal over a “clear material breach” of the social media company’s obligations.

See also:

'Move-to-Earn' Application Stepn Suffers Cyber Attack After Upgrade

Yuga Labs Confirms Discord Server Hack; 200 ETH Worth of NFTs Stolen


This episode has been edited by Michele Musso. Our Executive Producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “Neon Beach.”

HOSTS

Ali Powell

Ali Powell is CoinDesk's senior video producer.

Ali Powell
Sandali Handagama

Sandali Handagama is CoinDesk's deputy managing editor for policy and regulations, EMEA. She is an alumna of Columbia University's graduate school of journalism and has contributed to a variety of publications including The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Nation and Popular Science. Sandali doesn't own any crypto and she tweets as @iamsandali

Sandali Handagama
Zack Seward

Zack Seward is CoinDesk’s contributing editor-at-large. Up until July 2022, he served as CoinDesk’s deputy editor-in-chief. Prior to joining CoinDesk in November 2018, he was the editor-in-chief of Technical.ly, a news site focused on local tech communities on the U.S. East Coast. Before that, Seward worked as a reporter covering business and technology for a pair of NPR member stations, WHYY in Philadelphia and WXXI in Rochester, New York. Seward originally hails from San Francisco and went to college at the University of Chicago. He worked at the PBS NewsHour in Washington, D.C., before attending Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Zack Seward
Jennifer Sanasie

Jennifer Sanasie is an executive producer and senior anchor at CoinDesk, with over a decade of journalism experience across the U.S., Canada, and South Africa. Beyond media, she has worked closely with Web3 companies on marketing, content, and business strategy.

Jennifer holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management, a Master of Laws in Innovation and Technology from the University of Toronto, a BA in Media Studies from the University of Guelph, and a Journalism Diploma from Humber College.

She owns BTC, ETH, SOL, USDC, USDT, G7, and DCNT. She also holds a mix of NFTs, altcoins and memecoins worth under $1,000.

Jennifer Sanasie
‘Move-to-Earn’ App Stepn Suffers Cyber Attack and Elon Musk Threatens to Call Off Twitter Deal