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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to Charnwood Borough Council after it disclosed the new address of a domestic abuse victim to her ex-partner. The ICO has called on other organisations to learn lessons from the
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Hong Kong authorities reported on Nov. 27 that 145 users were affected in a scam by the unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange Hounax, resulting in a loss of 148 million HKD ($18.9 million), according to local media Shenzhen Commercial News. On Nov. 25, local police held an initial press conference to inform the
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Indexed Finance, an Ethereum-based project that suffered a $16 million hack in 2021, has successfully thwarted two hijacking attempts. Control of the project’s decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) will be returned to its founders, who aim to allocate the remaining treasury to victims of the 2021 hack.In a thread on X
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Hackers siphoned a total of $4.4 million in crypto from at least 25 LastPass users on Oct. 25, according to blockchain analyst ZachXBT. Source
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With exchanges like Binance still running ambassadorships in African countries, students have become increasingly skeptical of the programs, following their experiences with FTX. “You cannot find Binance doing campus programs in US universities and campuses, but they know Africa is a place where you can do things, speak to some
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Bitfinex’s parent company, iFinex, has proposed buying back $150 million worth of the company’s shares from users who were offered them as compensation for the $71 million hack on the Bitfinex crypto exchange in 2016, according to Bloomberg.IFinex revealed its plans to buy back the shares in a shareholder letter dated
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Warning comes after the ICO reprimands seven organisations in the past 14 months for data breaches affecting victims of domestic abuse. Most cases related to organisations inappropriately disclosing the victim’s home address to alleged perpetrators. Commissioner urges organisations to take
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This week, CoinEX and investor Mark Cuban were counting losses as hacks persisted. Despite these setbacks, Deutsche Bank, PayPal, and Franklin stepped into the crypto limelight. A slew of hacks Much like the previous weeks, crypto-related hacks dominated the scene this week. Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, faced a cybersecurity breach on
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One of the pools drained in the attack contained ether (ETH) and alETH, an ether derivative issued by Alchemix, a DeFi lending platform. Before the attack, the pool held 7,259 ETH and 4,822 alETH, Alchemix said. Then, the exploiter drained the majority of the tokens, leaving only 1 ETH and
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After a large earthquake hit Morocco causing at least 2,000 fatalities in Marrakech alone, Morocco’s fourth largest city, the cryptocurrency exchange Binance pledged millions in Binance Coin (BNB) as aid relief. According to an announcement on Sept. 11, a few days after the disaster struck, Binance said it will airdrop up
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