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German Fraudster Refuses to Give Police Passwords to $60M Bitcoin Wallet
German authorities have seized a Bitcoin wallet containing 1,700 BTC, valued at approximately $60 million at the current price. However, the wallet owner refuses to cooperate in disclosing the password. The seizure came about after an investigation into covert crypto-malware installations over two years ago. The fraudster at the heart of
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Your Passwords Could Be For Sale on the Dark Web Right Now
A recent study revealed that over 15 billion credentials are in circulation via the dark web, representing a 300% increase since 2018. Available information ranges from network access credentials, banking login data, and even streaming services accounts from Netflix.According to research conducted by the cybersecurity firm Digital Shadows, part of
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Bitcoin Sextortion: Scams Using Email, Videos, Passwords to Extort BTC
Millions of people worldwide have received sextortion scam emails in 2020 asking for bitcoin. These bitcoin sextortion schemes sometimes include recipients’ passwords to make the threat more real. The authorities have advised what to do if you receive a bitcoin sextortion email.Bitcoin Sextortion Scams Proliferate GloballyThe number of people
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Trident Crypto Fund Data Breach: 266,000 Passwords Stolen
In a major privacy breach, the usernames and passwords of more than a quarter of a million Trident Crypto Fund customers have been stolen and published online.Technical director of cybersecurity firm DeviceLock Ashot Oganesyan told Russian news outlet IZ the database — which contains email addresses, cellphone numbers, encrypted
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Crypto Exchange Poloniex Urges Users to Reset Passwords After Data Leak
Poloniex, a digital asset exchange based in the US, has notified its users that they need to reset their passwords for their accounts on the exchange.Poloniex initially sent users individual emails regarding the password and account security reset but after one of the crypto exchange’s customers posted on Twitter a
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‘DNA-of-Things’ Technology Can Store Bitcoin Passwords in Everyday Objects
Talk of bitcoin passwords being encoded and stored in synthetic DNA is not new, but in a recent development scientists have announced
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Gatehub Crypto Wallet Data Breach Compromises Passwords of 1.4M Users
A security researcher behind the data breach index site “Have I Been Pwned” said that password data and personal information of 2.2 million users of two websites have been dumped online.On Nov. 19, Ars Technica reported that security researcher Troy Hunt confirmed that the compromised data belonged to accounts
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New Web App Scans GitHub For Secrets Like Crypto Keys And Passwords
A new web app, called “Shhgit”, will scan the web-based GitHub code repository and search for sensitive secrets, such as private crypto keys.Scanning for private crypto keys and passwordsOn Oct. 17, programmer and security expert Paul Price introduced his new tool, Shhgit. Shhgit scans for secrets across public code
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Coinbase Accidentally Saves Unencrypted Passwords of 3,420 Customers
Major crypto platform Coinbase has emailed 3,420 Coinbase customers to disclose an accident with customer registration. Some registration details were apparently stored in clear text on the logs of Coinbase’s internal server, with affected customers now required to change their passwords.Coinbase announced the news in an official blog post
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