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13 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
London-based cryptocurrency exchange Cashaa suspended withdrawals for 24 hours after it reported that a hacker had stolen 336 Bitcoin (BTC) - worth $3.1 million - on July 11. Cashaa CEO Kumar Gaurav said that the hacker is suspected to be Indian an...
30 Jun 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
In a blog post published on June 29, Balancer Labs has revealed that a hacker has exploited a loophole in the code of the Balancer (BAL) protocol, siphoning $500,000 from 2 pools with deflationary tokens. Only these two pools, which contain the STA a...
29 Jun 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Heruvim78
Today, June 29th, two of the multi-token pools on DeFi platform Balancer were drained of ~$450,000. The attacker conducted the attack in two separate flashloan transactions by draining one liquidity pool until close to zero. The firm’s co-founder and...
25 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Yasin
A database with 40 million Telegram users info was posted on one of the darknet forums. The file with merged data takes approximately 900 megabytes. Telegram's Press Service confirmed the fact that the database exists, noting that such information is...
18 Jun 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
On June 16, U.S. District Judge Gary Feinerman of the Northern District of Illinois ordered former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles' motion for summary judgement. The lawsuit was first filed in 2014 by Gregory Greene, a user of the exchange. Karpeles had ma...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
