Lately, there's been a downtrend in scammers and crypto phishing attacks, more notably a decrease in crypto hackers that've been successfully been hacking into platforms and taking funds.
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Recently, vitalik buterin was actually hacked, and over 600k$ usd was stolen from users' wallets. Which means that it had diminished the respect of vitalik in some sense.
Going over the stories in the photo above, we're able to see that there seems to be an actual increase in hacks recently? Which really goes against what I had said in the beginning of this article.
North korea is somehow one of the leading hackers which means that they're literally invincible because they likely work for the government - which also means that all the money they make goes directly to the government, and the perpetrators are kept out of jail, forever.
Stake was hacked as well. 41 Million dollars. Imagine having 41,000,000$ taken away from you. I can't even begin to imagine how bad that would be. Stake.com is worth roughly 4 billion dollars, and 41 million is certainly going to be plumetting that worth down to 3.5b due to a lack of trust in security.
It must suck to have to build a company to the sky only to be hacked for your quarterly profits. That likely means that some people aren't going to be paid. (that's a joke....companies have cash on hand they pay employees with...regardless of whether they're hacked or not.
Worst part is that 41M$ was taken from hot wallets. (it was money that belonged to the users)