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Global Bitcoin payment service BitPay has warned customers of a vulnerability on a third-party NodeJS package used by the Copay and BitPay apps which could be used to capture users’ private keys. The company said the malicious code was deployed on versions 5.0.2 through 5.1.0 of its Copay and BitPay...
Earlier this month, it was revealed that Eric Cheng, a Singaporean entrepreneur, spent all of his life savings and sold his properties including two Rolls Royces, Lamborghini, Ferrari, and a Porsche to acquire a 100 percent stake in a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange called BitTrade. Why Cheng was Willing...
Bitcoin price plunge over the weekend is generally being linked to another cryptocurrency exchange hack in South Korea. This time it was a smaller exchange called Coinrail that was breached by blackhats who made off with over $40 million in altcoins which may have caused the massive sell-off...
Ian Balina, a famous cryptocurrency evangelist and millionaire investor, has been hacked. A compromised college email account may have been at the origin of the hack, according to Balina, who has asked the community for help to catch the perpetrator. Cryptocurrency Evangelist Allegedly Hacked Via Compromised Email Account Ian...
Coincheck’s offices were raided by Japan’s Financial Services Agency a week after a $500 Million dollar hack took place against the Cryptocurrency exchange, files and computers were seized as evidence. “The inspection was conducted to ensure security for users,” Finance Minister Taro Aso said. Largest Cryptocurrency Heist Since...
A random user on Reddit recently accused cryptocurrency trading platform Cryptsy of stealing his funds. “I made an account on cryptsy last year after getting some Dogecoin and traded it for BTC,” CRYPTONUMISMATIST narrated. “It wasn’t a huge amount of money and I had created a unique login/password...
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