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South Korean P2P Exchange Behind Last Week's Enormous Ethereum Transaction Fees

18 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

The Ethereum (ETH) network experienced two anomalous transactions last week that sparked a rise in transaction fees, with the transaction senders being unidentified. However, yesterday on June 17, South Korean peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange Goo...

Important Ledger Live update

3 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments monkeybusiness

Ledger just released an important update to their desktop and mobile versions of the Ledger Live application.  If you are using a Ledger wallet, this one applies to you.  The new update, version 2.4.1, upgrades the Ledger Bitcoin app to version 1.4.2...

Hackers steal $ 1,200 in ETH using GitHub bots

28 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Shadow Crypto

Hackers managed to steal $ 1,200 in Ethereum (ETH) from a Reddit user after he accidentally left his wallet's recovery phrase in a GitHub repository for less than two minutes. According to the Reddit user's post, hackers created automatic bots to ste...

Hacker Claims Theft of Ethereum.org, Ledger, Trezor and Other Big Names' Databases

25 May 2020 1 minute read 12 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

A hacker has allegedly managed to obtain personal details of users on several cryptocurrency platforms, including Ethereum (ETH), Ledger, Trezor and KeepKey, according to a post by cybersecurity researcher Under the Breach on May 24. Over 100,000 acc...

BlockFi revealed to their users via Emails that they had been hacked!

20 May 2020 1 minute read 3 comments Tejas19

I have been a BlockFi user since the start of this year and they have high profile investors like Coinbase, Winklevoss capital, Consensys, Fidelity investments, Morgan Creek capital investements and many more. With such huge backing for the instituti...

About Blockfi app and the European supercomputers - a hacker story

19 May 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Heruvim78

Most probably you know about the latest series of attacks on few European supercomputers, mainly used for medical research in universities, some related to Coronavirus. Wink, wink, we do not know which country is against the research to find the orig...

The DAO hack that lead to the creation of Ethereum (ETH)

10 May 2020 3 minute read 4 comments MarcusAbuboo

  So in this article I’m going to discuss how Ethereum transpired. Now I have been invested in Ethereum for a while now but in all honesty I have never known how it actually came about.  I know it is a fork of Ethereum Classic but how? and why? Maybe...

Ethereum Whale Alert: Upbit hackers transfer around 11,798 ETH - dump danger?

9 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments CRYPTOUS

Again and again investors fall for scams around Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies. Sometimes there is no scam behind it, but a hack of a larger exchange. Cryptocurrencies worth several billion USD have been stolen over the past few years. ...

DForce Attacker Returns All $25 Million in Stolen Funds after Tracing

21 Apr 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

The hacker who stole $25 million from the dForce platform on April 18 and 19 has returned all of the funds, following an investigation which showed that the attacker had not thoroughly covered his or her tracks.  Reports are emerging that state the a...

Victims of Cryptopia hack will receive compensation of $ 100M

9 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Nogelyax2

Victims will be reimbursed! Cryptopia was a New Zealand exchange particularly known for its listing of small cap cryptocurrencies. In January 2019 Cryptopia was the target of a $ 16 million hack. Cryptopia had been placed in liquidation in May 2019 f...