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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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According to the decentralized finance (defi) protocol Crema Finance, the application was hacked on July 2, 2022. A Twitter account called “Solanafm” says the defi protocol lost around $8.7 million from the attack. Crema Finance Vulnerability Causes Defi App to Lose Millions — 6 Flashloans Executed Another defi protocol has lost
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Ethereum ecosystem liquidity provider XCarnical has recovered 1,467 Ether (ETH) just a day after suffering an attack that cost them 3,087 ETH, worth about $3.8 million on their platform. The hack was first noticed by Peckshield, a blockchain investigator, as it came across a stream of transactions that eventually led
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Russian law enforcement is looking into the alleged theft of mining hardware valued at around $1.9 million. The powerful computing equipment disappeared from a crypto mining hotel in Irkutsk, the owners of which have been accused of large scale fraud. 100 Russians Lose Mining Machines Worth 100 Million Rubles Police in the
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Two Kenyan students accused of hacking credit cards and using the ill-gotten funds to buy bitcoin have been arrested by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, a statement from the law enforcement agency has said. After converting the cryptocurrency to local currency, the two students would use the fraudulently acquired funds
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Optimism token was attacked earlier this week after the team announced that 20 million OP tokens were stolen. On Friday, the attacker behind the theft returned 17 million tokens. For returning the tokens, the attacker was rewarded with 2 million of the tokens. The funds were returned over the course of 17 transactions to
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Previously, the attacker cashed out 1 million OP and sent an additional 1 million to Buterin, who is working to return the funds according to Optimism. At press time, 1 million tokens, worth close to $900,000, remained in the attacker’s wallet, blockchain data shows. Original Source
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An opportunity for attack came when Wintermute gave the wrong wallet address to Optimism. The money was supposed to be held in a multi-signature wallet belonging to the Wintermute team, but the address provided by Wintermute was for a wallet on Ethereum, whereas it should have been an address on
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The decentralized nature of crypto assets ensures that transactions and activities involving the assets have no third parties interference. This has remained a leveraging feature that decentralized finance uses against its centralized counterpart. Yet, most criminal activities relating to cryptocurrency are scaling through based on its decentralized characteristics. One of such
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