Twitter says it is ramping up security following the major hack that occurred several months ago.Twitter Says Its Fixing Up Its SecurityWhile not much money was stolen, it was scary to see the accounts of such high-profile people get overtaken by a small string of hackers. Some of the people involved in the scam were Jeff Bezos of Amazon fame, Elon Musk (CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla), former president Barack Obama and Microsoft mogul Bill Gates.To be fair, these figures themselves were not...
Read More »Users Don’t Really Care About the Twitter Bitcoin Hijack
The recent Twitter bitcoin hack could arguably be one of the biggest stories of the year surrounding the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency by market cap, but for most traders, the event is just another situation to be chalked up in the bitcoin history books and forgotten.Bitcoin Has Hardly Been AffectedDespite all the press surrounding the hack, traders don’t seem to care much about what occurred, and the price of bitcoin really hasn’t been affected. In fact, despite a marginal...
Read More »Russian ZP Legal Claims They Can Recover Mt. Gox’s $2 Billion Lost in Bitcoin Hack
Moscow-based law firm Zheleznikov and Partners (ZP Legal) claims has put forward a proposal on how to recover up to 200,000 Bitcoin (BTC) stolen from the Japanese exchange Mt. Gox. The solution implies taking legal action against Russian nationals who received the stolen money.Mt. Gox HackMt. Gox was a Japanese Bitcoin exchange launched in July 2010. By 2013, Mt. Gox was handling over 70% of all Bitcoin transactions worldwide, as the largest bitcoin intermediary and the world’s leading...
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