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Some of the 119,756 Bitcoin that was stolen from crypto exchange Bitfinex in 2016 has started moving again. According to a series of tweets posted by Whale Alert on July 27-28, wallet addresses known to be associated with one of the largest breaches ever of a crypto exchange moved 3503 Bitcoin
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Reggie Middleton, the chief executive of crypto company Veritaseum, is suing telecommunications provider T-Mobile for allegedly enabling the theft of $8.7 million worth of crypto in a series of SIM-swap attacks.According to filings published on July 22, Middleton was first targeted by SIM-swappers during July 2017. Despite immediately reporting the
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Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cryptox in one link.Top Stories This WeekElon Musk, Kanye West and Bill Gates’
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Blockchain tracking and analytics platform, Whale Alert, revealed that over the past four years, scammers have stolen over $38 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC).New heights could be reached at the end of 2020Whale Alert’s study, which relies on data from the crypto scam tracking site, Scam Alert, suggests that the
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U.K.-based cryptocurrency trading firm GPay Ltd has been wound up by the High Court ‘in the public interest,’ according to a recent
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On June 12, 2020, the former CEO of Mt Gox, Mark Karpeles, tweeted about the notorious Craig Wright, the man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto. Karpeles and a number of crypto community members, assert that Wright’s legal team from London has been sending documents to certain individuals. The
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[sociallocker id="55298"] Ransomware group REvil has started another auction on the dark web listing sensitive data stolen from two US-based law firms.The listing appeared June 6 through REvil’s official blog on the darknet, where bidders look to acquire 50GB of data from Fraser Wheeler & Courtney LLP and 1.2TB of
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[sociallocker id="55298"] On average, the ransom demanded by cryptocurrency ransomware hackers increased by 200% from 2018 to 2019.According to a report published on June 5 by cybersecurity firm Crypsis Group, the average ransom demanded by cryptocurrency ransomware groups in 2019 reached $115,123.The median ransom, on the other hand, increased by
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[sociallocker id="55298"] ST Engineering Aerospace’s US subsidiary suffered a ransomware attack that managed to extract about 1.5TB of sensitive data from the firm and its partners.According to an article published by The Straits Times on June 6, the Singapore-based company was allegedly attacked by the well-known ransomware gang Maze in
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[sociallocker id="55298"] A crypto trader is trying to seize nearly 500 bitcoin from Xapo and Indodax through a new lawsuit that accuses the two crypto exchanges of harboring his stolen funds. Plaintiff Dennis Nowak, a German resident, and his counsel, longtime crypto lawyer David Silver, filed their demand for jury trial
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