Reading Time: 2 minutes Ledger fell victim to two data breaches in 2020 Ledger itself was hacked while ecommerce provider Shopify was also targeted We break down the two Ledger data breaches and what has happened with them Yesterday’s...
Placed under provisional liquidation last month, Mirror Trading had claimed to be able to offer returns of 10% a month using bots to trade client's bitcoin.
The petition asks the EU to take a tiny fee on crypto transactions to be pooled into a fund for victims of fraud and hacks.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ledger has confirmed a Shopify data breach that has added 20,000 victims to the 1.29 million known about from Ledger’s own hack The Shopify hack was revealed in May but dismissed as “rumors” by the company Two Shopify employees stole and sold...
Reading Time: 2 minutes The case against Overstock executives is back on after the judge reversed his September dismissal Founder Gabriel Bryne and another high ranking board member were accused of manipulating the share price in 2019 The plaintiffs can now file an...
Reading Time: 2 minutes A face to face bitcoin sale in Hong Kong has ended with the seller being robbed for the cash he had just received The seller thought he was meeting one man, but a gang turned up and took the money after the transaction had gone through The event...
Reading Time: 2 minutes The amount of stolen bitcoin has dropped 92% from last year, according to Casa CTO Jameson Lopp Just 4,437...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Cryptocurrency exchange hacks are down 30% in 2020 compared to last year DeFi exchanges and protocols are responsible for 50% of all such hacks Improved security has reduced hacks on centralized exchanges...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ross Ulbricht’s chances of receiving a presidential pardon took a blow yesterday he was not among 15 individuals granted clemency by Donald Trump The outgoing president pardoned members of his inner circle and U.S. contractors accused of murder...
Reading Time: 3 minutes The database of Ledger hack victims, which includes the physical addresses of over 250,000 customers, has been publicly dumped on a hacker forum The Leger hack took place in June with the details selling for six figures Ledger acknowledged that...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pierre Rochard has called for U.S. Marshals to hold off from auctioning the ₿69,370 seized from a Silk Road hacker last month Rochard called for the authorities to retain the bitcoin as an alternative form of investment...
Austin Nedved pleaded guilty to involvement in scams that reaped over $600,000 by targeting the elderly and vulnerable.
A Guardian Australia investigation traced the source of a major crypto scam using Google ads to addresses in Moscow.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Jailed Silk road founder Ross Ulbricht could be granted clemency by outgoing president Donald Trump The Daily Beast reports that Ulbricht’s file has been with the White House and the president has shown sympathy in Ulbricht’s plight Ulbricht was...
The cryptocurrency firm had falsely claimed to have an impressive executive team, as well as 38 state money transmitter licenses.
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