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Hackers Hit World’s Largest Bank, Forcing Financial Giant to Rely on USB Stick to Settle Trades: Report

Engineers are investigating how hackers managed to crack the New York arm of the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China…

November 11, 2023

Tron Founder Justin Sun Offers 5% Cut to Hacker After Poloniex Crypto Exchange Loses $125,000,000 in Cyber Heist

Tron (TRX) founder Justin Sun is offering a 5% white hat bounty to the hacker who exploited the exchange Poloniex…

November 10, 2023

Telegram Trading Bot Unibot Suffers $640,000 Exploit Against Token Approval Contract: Peckshield

A Telegram trading bot crypto project that was launched earlier this year has been exploited for more than $600,000. According…

November 1, 2023

Silk Road Hacker Accidentally Showed Feds $70,000,000 Worth of Bitcoin on His Laptop Before Being Arrested: Report

Police body cam footage shows the Silk Road hacker opening up a laptop with thousands of Bitcoin (BTC) on it…

October 17, 2023

Avalanche (AVAX)-Based Social Finance Platform Suffers $2,900,000 Exploit: Peckshield

A social finance (SocialFi) platform built on Avalanche (AVAX) has suffered losses after bad actors targeted a smart contract vulnerability. …

October 8, 2023

FTX Hacker Holding $300,000,000 in Crypto Suddenly Moves Millions Worth of Assets: On-Chain Data

A bad actor who hacked the infamous crypto exchange FTX as it was collapsing is abruptly moving millions of dollars…

October 1, 2023

Hacker Breaches Nansen’s Third-Party Vendor, Exposes Some of the Crypto Data Firm’s Customer Details

A hacker managed to steal a significant chunk of customer information from the crypto data firm Nansen after breaching one…

September 23, 2023

Mt. Gox Extends Repayment Deadline of Estimated $3,700,000,000+ in Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Payout

Defunct crypto exchange Mt. Gox is extending its deadline to repay about $3.7 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin…

September 21, 2023

Billionaire Mark Cuban Suffers $870,000 in Losses to Crypto Hack: Report

Business magnate Mark Cuban has reportedly been hacked to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of digital…

September 17, 2023

Hacker Exploits Optimism-Based Decentralized Credit Market for $7,200,000 Worth of Ethereum (ETH)

An Optimism-based (OP) decentralized credit market protocol has been hacked to the tune of millions of dollars worth of Ethereum…

August 19, 2023