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23-Year-Old Pleads Guilty to Crypto Twitter Hack from Three Years Ago

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Three years ago, the world watched in horror as one of the most prominent crypto scams to ever occur on Twitter unfolded before their very eyes. Man Faces Prison for Twitter Crypto Hack in 2020 Many high-profile accounts – including those of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and former president Barack Obama – were hacked...

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Euler Finance Hacker Turns In $31M as Recovery Efforts Come to Close

The decentralized lending platform was exploited in a March 13 flash loan attack, causing it to lose $197 million worth of crypto assets. In the late hours of Monday, the Euler Finance hacker finally returned the outstanding sum of $31 million, bringing the recovery efforts to a conclusive end. The decentralized lending platform was exploited in a March 13 flash loan attack, causing it to lose $197 million worth of crypto assets. And shortly after the hack, Euler Finance offered the...

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Mining Pool BTC.com Hacked; $3 Million Goes Missing

It’s happened again, folks. Another crypto hack is in the books. This time, the victim is alleged to be BTC.com, one of the biggest crypto mining pools in the world. BTC.com Hacked; A Lot of Money Gone The mining pool is believed to have lost as much as $3 million at the time of writing, which on paper, doesn’t appear as big as some of the other major hacks and scams that have occurred within the confines of the crypto space in recent years. However, it’s still another...

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Crypto Firm Deribit Hacked; Nearly $30 Million Gone

It’s happened again, folks. Another digital currency hack is in the books. This time, the victim is Deribit, a cryptocurrency exchange based in the Central American nation of Panama. Deribit Has Lost a Lot of Money At the time of writing, as much as $28 million in crypto assets have been stolen. The exchange confirmed the incident in a tweet a few weeks ago, claiming that it’s BTC, ETH, and USDC hot wallets had been compromised by malicious actors and inherently drained of the units they...

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Bitfinex Hack Victims Are Still Waiting to Get Their Funds Back

Earlier in the year, the Justice Department announced it had seized billions in crypto funds from a heist that occurred in 2016. Many customers of Bitfinex had their money stolen during that heist, and they learned that approximately $70 million of the recovered funds were likely theirs. Funds Stolen from Bitfinex Have Not Yet Been Returned One such victim – Frankie Cavazos – said he lost about 15 BTC units from the 2016 attack. Upon hearing that his money had been...

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Twitter Account of Crypto Firm Gate.io Overtaken By Hackers

Hackers recently took over the Twitter account of popular digital currency exchange Gate.io and initiated a fake Tether giveaway to try and get people to send in their money – money they would have never seen again if they had fallen for the trick. The Twitter Account of Gate.io Has Been Hacked One of the first things the hackers did was manipulate the Twitter feed for the company and change things from Gate.io to Gate.com. This is a common tactic many hackers utilize to...

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Crypto Platform Mango Markets Hacked; More Than $100 Million Stolen

It’s happened again, folks. Another hack is in the books. This time, the victim is Mango Markets, a trading platform situated atop the Solana blockchain. At the time of writing, it appears as much as $116 million has been stolen through what’s known as a “flash loan” attack. Mango Markets Loses More Than $100 Million This kind of attack happens in a decentralized setting. A hacker or cyberthief takes out a flash loan and then manipulates crypto prices on a single...

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Binance Hacked; Nearly $600 Million in BNB Stolen

It’s happened again, folks. Another hack is in the books, but this one was not only large, but also unexpected. The victim this time around is Binance, the largest and most powerful digital currency trading platform in the world. Binance Has Lost a Lot of Money At the time of writing, the exchange has lost more than $600 million in a cyberattack. All the funds in question were in BNB, which stands for Binance Coin. It is the exchange’s native token. The exchange reported...

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Fintech-Bank Revolut wurde gehackt!

Der Schweizer Markt gehört zu den am schnellsten wachsenden Märkten von Revolut in Europa. zusammen mit Ländern wie Italien, Portugal, Irland, Rumänien und Polen. Die britische Neobank Revolut erlitt am Abend des 10. Septembers 2022 einen Cyberangriff, bei dem Kundendaten gestohlen wurden. Konkret handelt es sich dabei um Daten von mehr als 50 Tausend Kunden, wovon knapp 20 Tausend aus dem Raum der Europäischen Union stammen. Zuerst bekannt wurde es...

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