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The hacker that breached hardware wallet provider Ledger’s marketing database earlier this year has released personal data for thousands of users, prompting many to threaten the firm with a class-action lawsuit.According to a tweet from network security firm Hudson Rock's Alon Gal, a hacker allegedly behind the breach of personal
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A hacker, who on Monday stole $8.3 million from the private wallet of Nexus Mutual CEO Hugh Karp, has sent a ransom demand for $2.66 million in Ether (ETH) embedded in the input data of an Ethereum transaction.In the poorly-worded Dec. 16 message, the attacker addresses Karp directly, and seems
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Twitter has hired a new head of security four months after suffering one of the worst breaches in its 14-year history.As reported by Reuters on Monday, Peiter Zatko, a prominent white-hat hacker going by the handle “Mudge,” said he will take charge of security, site integrity and engineering on behalf
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On Nov. 14, an unknown party exploited flash loans via the decentralized finance protocol Value DeFi to the tune of $5.4 million. A number of individuals have received a portion of their stolen funds back, however, after pleading with the hacker using input data on the Ethereum blockchain.According to data
Read MoreThe decentralized finance (DeFi) community's insatiable appetite for unaudited code has once again ended in tears and the loss of millions.Eminence, an unfinished “economy for a gaming multiverse” being built by Yearn Finance's Andre ‘I test in production’ Cronje, was discovered by DeFi sleuths after the developer posted art teasers
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A Nevada woman is facing federal charges for allegedly paying a darkweb hitman $5,000 worth of bitcoin to murder her ex-husband in a case that shares striking parallels with another recent murder-for-hire plot. The charges demonstrate how individuals who view bitcoin as a gateway to criminal dealings –
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the latest victim of a Twitter hack undertaken to trick social media users into sending cryptocurrency to the attackers. The Modi incident is another sobering reminder to always think twice before sending crypto to strangers on the internet, even if there’s a blue check and
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A hacker has stolen data on more than 1,000 users from CryptoTrader.Tax, an online service used to calculate and file taxes on cryptocurrency trades. The hacker broke into a CryptoTrader.Tax marketing and customer service employee’s account on a support center platform, according to a source who came across the hacker on
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Funds collected by the scam that breached twitter this week appear to be on the move, cryptocurrency tracing firm Elliptic said. According to transaction data associated with crypto wallets used in the security breach, a total of about $123,000 was collected by the attackers. Of that about 22%, 2.89 BTC, was
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