Hacks


Policy

Livecoin Exchange Announces Closure After December Hack

The trading platform now says it will close and repay users any remaining funds.

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Tech

Ledger Adds Bitcoin Bounty and New Data Security After Hack

Rogue actors at e-commerce partner Shopify exposed 20,000 new Ledger customer records, including emails, names, postal addresses and phone numbers.

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Markets

EXMO Exchange Now Says It Lost 6% of Total Crypto Assets in Monday's Hack

EXMO says it is "assuming" the attacker had prior access to some of its hot wallet keys.

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Markets

Crypto Exchange EXMO Says Hackers Have Stolen 5% of Total Assets

The incident saw losses of bitcoin, XRP, zcash, tether, ether and ethereum classic, according to early analysis.

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Finance

Mining Market NiceHash Refunds Users 4,640 Bitcoin Lost in 2017 Hack

The company has "regularly waived profits" for three years, the firm's CEO wrote Thursday.

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Markets

CEO of DeFi Insurer Nexus Mutual Hacked for $8M in NXM Tokens

Nexus Mutual's CEO, Hugh Karp, lost the tokens after an attacker gained remote access to his computer.

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Policy

Coronavirus-Induced Poverty Will Bring More Bitcoin Crime in 2021: Kaspersky Report

The cybersecurity specialist foresees a rise in crypto crime ahead in 2021 as the COVID-19 epidemic hits national economies.

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Markets

DeFi Protocol Pickle Finance Token Loses Almost Half Its Value After $19.7M Hack

Popular decentralized finance protocol Pickle Finance was hacked on Saturday, draining $19.7 million in DAI.

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Markets

GoDaddy Employees Tricked Into Transferring Control of Crypto Firm Domains: Report

Cryptocurrency trading platform liquid.com and crypto mining firm NiceHash were two of at least six firms that had control of their domains briefly transferred.

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Tech

Tor Developers Pursuing ‘Anonymous Tokens’ to Stop Hacks and DoS Attacks

Tokens could be included in a users traffic request, which would allow websites accessible through the Tor network to “intelligently prioritize which requests it answers.”

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