Transit Swap ‘hacker’ returns lion’s share of $23M in stolen funds: Finance Redefined
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Binance Hacker Put Millions Of New BNB In Circulation, What Does This Mean For Price?
In the early hours of Friday, news broke that a hacker had been able to successfully exploit the BNB Chain. However, unlike
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Transit Swap ‘hacker’ returns 70% of $23M in stolen funds
A quick response from a number of blockchain security companies has helped facilitate the return of around 70% of the $23 million exploit of decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator Transit Swap.The DEX aggregator lost the funds after a hacker exploited an internal bug on a swap contract on Oct. 1, leading
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MEV bot earns $1M but loses everything to a hacker an hour later
An Ethereum arbitrage trading bot managed to hit the jackpot and lose it all on the same day in an ironic turn of events in decentralized finance (DeFi). In a Twitter thread, Robert Miller, who works at the research firm Flashbots, shared how a Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) bot with the
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Hacker Steals Bill Murray’s Crypto After $185K NFT Charity Auction
Murray’s wallet security team from NFT consultancy Project Venkman team stepped in to shield the actor’s NFTs by moving his high-priced JPEGs – including a Damien Herst NFT, two CryptoPunks, a Pudgy Penguin, a Cool Cat and numerous Flower Girls – to a pair of safehouse wallets. Source
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Hacker tries to exploit bridge protocol, fails miserably: Finance Redefined
Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week.This past week, there were some major developments in the run-up to the upcoming Ethereum Merge slated for Sept. 15. Bitfinex became the latest crypto
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Hacker drains $1.08M from Audius following passing of malicious proposal
Proposals in crypto help communities make consensus-based decisions. However, for decentralized music platform Auduis, the passing of a malicious governance proposal resulted in the transfer of tokens worth $5.9 million, with the hacker making away with $1 million. On July 24, a malicious proposal (Proposal #85) requesting the transfer of 18
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Hacker Selling 1 Billion Chinese Citizens’ Data for 10 BTC, Zuckerberg’s Meta Ends Novi Project, and More — Bitcoin.com News Week in Review – The Weekly Bitcoin News
In this week’s bite-sized digest of the hottest stories from Bitcoin.com News, a hacker claims to have stolen a massive amount of Chinese citizens’ personal data from Shanghai police, and now wants to sell it for ten bitcoins. Also, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has ditched the Novi project, after unveiling a
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Crema Finance Hacker Negotiates With Defi Project’s Team, Returns $8 Million in ETH and SOL – Bitcoin News
Following the hack on July 2, 2022, the team behind the decentralized finance (defi) protocol Crema Finance detailed that after some negotiation, the hacker returned roughly $8 million in crypto assets. According to the team, the hacker agreed to take a white hat bounty worth 45,455 solana. Hacker Returns $8 Million
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Leaked Personal Data of 1 Billion Chinese Citizens on Sale for 10 Bitcoins — Hacker Claims Stolen From Shanghai Police – Security Bitcoin News
A hacker claims to have stolen the personal data of a billion Chinese citizens from the Shanghai National Police (SHGA) and is selling it for 10 bitcoins. “This database contains many TB of data and information on billions of Chinese citizens.” 23 Terabytes of Data on a Billion Chinese Citizens on
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