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It has become known that Coinbase saved over 1,000 users from sending Bitcoins to scammers in the recent Twitter hack.It appears that the Twitter hack of the about 130 accounts of famous people and companies could have been worse. Last week, accounts of majors brands, politicians, world leaders, and celebrities were
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Every year has a handful of days that you’ll never forget. Sometimes for great reasons, sometimes for awful ones, and sometimes because a level of noise and action coalesces into an awareness that something big has shifted. Wednesday was one of those days, with the staccato of compromised Twitter accounts (including
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Reports have emerged that hackers have demanded $7.5 million in Monero following an attack on Telecom Argentina S.A, a major telecom provider that serves the country’s north region. Anonymous sources claim the cyberattack has been on-going since Wednesday. At first, staff attributed poor IT performance to glitches within the system. But investigations
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Cryptocurrency traders yawned at one of the year’s biggest news stories for bitcoin, with prices barely budging as the digital-asset industry became a primary victim of this week’s massive hack on Twitter accounts. The notoriously volatile bitcoin slid just 0.8% to about $9,100 on Thursday after slipping a meager 0.7% on Wednesday
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What started as one crypto Twitter account being compromised ultimately became a widespread hack that resulted in some of the most prominent accounts on the platform shilling a Bitcoin scam. This exposed a major security flaw in the popular social media platform, as the hackers had free reign to access and
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Bitcoin traders seem unfazed by the massive Twitter hack on Wednesday, as the price of the top cryptocurrency has largely remained steady.Prominent U.S. figures including billionaires Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos were targeted by hackers in an apparent Twitter bitcoin (BTC) scam. The official accounts of former
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For five hours, all of Twitter became Crypto Twitter. Yesterday, one of the biggest digital hacks in recent memory went down. A hacker, likely a Bitcoiner, gained access to Twitter’s administrative functions and began a crypto-scam campaign. Some of the world’s most notable accounts on the site started offering to double
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Wednesday’s Twitter hack would seem to spell regulatory doom for Bitcoin, which is widely distrusted in Washington. Some lawmakers – and U.S. President Donald Trump himself – associate it with crime. In 2019 Trump tweeted he is not a fan of bitcoin and that “unregulated crypto assets can facilitate unlawful behavior.”
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Euro Pacific Capital CEO, Peter Schiff’s comment suggesting Bitcoin might be the next target following a hack of multiple VIP Twitter accounts has been ridiculed by bitcoiners.Seemingly relishing the prospect of a bitcoin hack, Schiff a gold bug and a well-known bitcoin critic, signs off his Twitter post by
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A crypto-related Twitter hack didn’t deter traders from snatching up $9,000 bitcoin. Wednesday’s Twitter hack didn’t seem to bother traders very much. “The attack may have harmed bitcoin’s public perception, but the fact that the market has hardly reacted is a positive sign,” said Rich Rosenblum, co-founder of New York-based trading firm
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