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1400BTC Stolen from User, Trace Ends in Russia

1 Sep 2020 1 minute read 15 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

A Russian hacker is believed to have stolen 1,400 Bitcoin (BTC) from a Electrum user’s wallet, according to the victim’s post made on Github on August 30. User says that he had 1400 BTC in an Electrum wallet he had not accessed since 2017 The user h...

If Crytpocurrency Safe Thus What Hackable ?

25 Aug 2020 2 minute read 0 comments mummyrio

As we know, there had been many stolen cases of bitcoin and cryptocurrency assets on exchangers. 2014m Mtgox robbery was about 460 Million USD, Coicheck with NEM asset lost about 500 Million USD,  Binance 2019 about 40 million USD. There were many ba...

With Bug That Led to $371K Hack Fixed, Opyn Launches YFI and WETH Options Contracts

24 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Ethereum (ETH) options issuance platform Opyn has launched two new put contracts, only a few weeks after it suffered a hack that saw $371,000 siphoned. The team announced on August 21 that it had thoroughly stress tested and vetted the protocol. Opy...

Virus warning: be careful when you send your BTC or ETH! updated version of the virus!

15 Aug 2020 1 minute read 4 comments VNFC

hello guys this is a real threat and is becoming bigger as long the people are FOMO-ing around crypto. It's not the case to build a long article to make my point. Just be careful at this: When you want to transfer your BTC to another address, it is...

Ethereum Classic Experienced its Second 51% Attack in a Week

6 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Ethereum Classic (ETC) experienced its second 51% attack in roughly a week, after the Ethermine pool’s parent entity Bitfly reported that 4000 blocks had been reorganized on August 6. The amount stolen is currently unknown. This is the second attack...

DeFi Protocol Opyn hacked. More than $370,000 stolen from the smart contract.

5 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments lioha369

Around 4 AM PT today Defi Protocol Opyn was hacked by means of a double-spend attack. This protocol offers options for ETH, DeFi tokens, and insurance on Compound deposits. The hacker found an exploit in Opyn protocol's options tokens (oTokens) and u...

DeFi Protocol Opyn Hacked, Over $370K in User Funds Stolen

5 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Decentralized insurance platform Opyn was hacked on August 4, resulting in the theft of over $370,000. The hacker exploited a flaw in the Opyn ETH Put contracts, which is the only contract that has been affected.  The exploit allowed the attacker  t...

PSA: Don't Be Like This Person! How to Secure Your Crypto!

4 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments cryptoforcanadians

I'm keeping this post short as it's more of a public service announcement. I recently came across a post on Reddit about how someone had lost 1.6 BTC. After learning about how the person had lost the BTC, I immediately knew that I had to write a post...

Ledger Hacked - One Million E-Mails and 9,500 Home Addresses Exposed

30 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Otek

Ledger is a French company behind one of the most known and prominent BTC and ETH crypto wallet. They announced on Wednesday (29.07.2020) that its e-commerce database was hacked in June. On their website you Can read that approximately 1 million of...

This is why the Ledger Hack is dangerous

29 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Mr. Sloth

As you may heard, Ledger was hacked. As far as we know, their ecommerce and marketing database got leaked and your crypto funds and wallet is safe (yay). Your payment information like CC or paypal is also not leaked but the hacker could gather 9500 a...