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DeFi lender bZx suffered a hack for a reported $55 million, according to a tweet on Friday by the blockchain security firm SlowMist. “#bZx private key compromised, over $55 million dollars stolen so far. We’ll continue to update as more information is discovered,” SlowMist tweeted. bZx responded in a tweet
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This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industry’s most important news, including influential projects, changes in the regulatory landscape, and enterprise blockchain integrations. It was a quiet week in the mainland as much of the Chinese crypto community was either lying low,
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A hack on Boy X Highspeed (BXH) , a decentralized cross-chain exchange, that drained $139 million of funds was probably the result of a leaked administrator key, and possibly an inside job, CEO Neo Wang told CoinDeskBased on a consultation with an external security team, BXH says the hacker was
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Ethereum defi protocol Cream Finance suffered an exploit yesterday that allowed attackers to steal $130 million from its holdings. The news was first revealed by Peckshield, a blockchain analytics company that discovered a flash loan had exploited the platform. This is the third hack the protocol has suffered in its
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CoinMarketCap, a price-tracking website for cryptocurrencies, has reportedly fallen victim to a hack that leaked 3.1 million user email addresses. The information came into light after the hacked email addresses were found to be traded and sold online on various hacking forums, and revealed by Have I Been Pwned, a website
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Coinbase has released a breach notification letter this week saying that a minimum of 6,000 user accounts were victim to hackers. The exchange has stated that the breach took place between March and May of this year. What We Know The letter notes that unauthorized third parties exploited Coinbase’s SMS account recovery
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A vulnerability that allowed hackers to bypass Coinbase’s multi-factor authentication SMS option has affected at least 6,000 of the exchange’s customers, according to a notification letter sent to affected customers that the company has filed with the California state attorney general offices. Source
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PNetwork, a decentralized finance (DeFi) system that allows different blockchains to communicate with each other, said it lost 277 bitcoins ($12 million) after an attacker found a bug in its code.The attack targeted its pBTC token on Binance Smart Chain, pNetwork said in a tweet. Bridges to other blockchains weren’t
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Cross-chain DeFi platform pNetwork has become the latest protocol to be targeted by hackers on Binance Smart Chain, reporting a loss of roughly $12.7 million worth of Bitcoin. According to a Twitter thread published by pNetwork on Sept. 20, the incursion resulted in 277 pBTC being siphoned from the exchange. The
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Cream Finance, a major decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol focused on lending, has suffered a major exploit, with a hacker stealing nearly $19 million from its platform.An unknown hacker has managed to gain $18.8 million in the latest flash loan exploit of the Cream Finance protocol through a reentrancy bug introduced
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