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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...

Ledger suffers a data leak | 1 Million data sets stolen

29 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments WlanWerner

Crypto Hardware wallet provider Ledger has been successfully hacked and lost control over more than a million of customers datasets including contact and order information.   In a blog post published today (29/07/2020) ledger admits that an unauthori...

ConsenSys: attacks against Eth2 are easier to scale than against Eth1

18 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments PassionCryptodotcom

An   independent report   by two ConsenSys researchers this week explored an economic review of ETH 2.0 "Serenity", the next move to a proof of ownership mechanism for Ethereum . Among the many takeaways, it is stated that "Attacks against Eth2 are e...

Who's Behind the Epic Twitter Hack?

17 Jul 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Permabull

  Before the epic hacking campaign, compromising many of Twitter high-profile users, an ad went up on a market site that facilitates the trade of user accounts - ogusers. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/hs7jr3/a_little_insight_into_the_eve...

Twitter was hacked. Why are decentralized social networks better?

16 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Alex Kuper

Last night I once again realized that WEB 3.0 is much better and more reliable than regular sites, social networks, e-wallets, etc. Now I will tell you what happened and why I am grateful to "fate" for once introducing me to decentralized social netw...

The Bitcoin Twitter Hack

15 Jul 2020 1 minute read 1 comment BitGamble

The Bitcoin Twitter Hack A huge security breach occurred on Twitter today, where multiple popular accounts have been breached and used to promote a classic Bitcoin Giveaway scam, by using the domain "cryptoforhealth.c om"(Please do not attempt to ent...