Hacks in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector have increased significantly over the past few years. The latest attack was on the Wormhole bridge that links the Ethereum (ETH/USD) and Solana (SOL/US...
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US Government Seizes $3.6 Billion Worth of Crypto Linked to Bitfinex Hack
Alex Dovbnya The U.S. Department of Justice has confiscated worth of crypto linked to the infamous Bitfinex hack The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has seized $3.6 billion worth of cryptocu...
US government seizes $3.6 billion in bitcoin tied to 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex
advertisement The US Department of Justice said Tuesday that it has seized $3.6 billion worth of bitcoin tied to the 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex. Two individuals, Ilya Lichtenstein and Heat...
Charity hack fixes your crypto CGT bill: Endaoment – Cointelegraph Magazine
Robbie Heeger’s Endaoment has facilitated the donation of over $30 million of cryptocurrency to 243 different charities. These donations come from altruistic cryptocurrency investors who are also part...
Cross-chain Bridge Hack of Meter Sees $4.4M Stolen
Meter, an infrastructure provider for DeFi, is urging a hacker who exploited a deposit mechanism to return the $4.4M of stolen funds. A blockchain infrastructure company that operates in the Decentral...
Ethereum, Solana Mount Recovery Following Crypto Bridge Hack
Ethereum and Solana have both enjoyed healthy gains over the last day. Ethereum, the second-largest crypto network after Bitcoin, is currently up over 8%. Solana, another smart contract-enabled netwo...
Calling a Hack an Exploit Minimizes Human Error
Yesterday, beginning at 18:24 UTC, someone or something exploited a security vulnerability on Wormhole, a tool that allows users to swap assets between Ethereum and a number of blockchains, resulting ...
Jump Crypto Fronts $325 Million In Stolen Crypto One Day After Solana’s Biggest Hack Ever
Topline Digital assets firm Jump Crypto said Thursday it replaced the $325 million worth of tokens allegedly stolen from its portfolio company Wormhole Portal, a platform that helps users transfer cry...
Solana Suffers Dip Following $322M Wormhole Hack
Key Takeaways Solana is down 13.5% today. SOL tanked on the news that $322 million had been stolen from the Wormhole bridge. The Wormhole team says that it will be replacing the stolen ETH. Share this...
Crypto Bridge Wormhole Replenished After Hack for $320M in Ethereum
Wormhole, a popular cross-chain crypto bridge between Solana, Ethereum, Avalanche, and others, has restored its missing funds after a hacker yesterday managed to siphon $320 million in Wrapped Ethereu...
Ethereum Rival Solana Suddenly In Free Fall After Huge $325 Million Hack
Solana, a blockchain-based smart contract platform that’s risen to challenge the dominant network ethereum over the last year, has been hit by a huge hack. The solana price, which has rocketed o...
Wormhole suffers $321 million hack
TL; DR Breakdown Wormhole suffers $321 million hack The platform bridges different blockchains The hacker breached a vulnerability in Solana The issue of scams and hacks in the crypto sector is one me...
Solana Woes Worsen in $320 Million (120K wETH) Wormhole Bridge Hack
A Solana bridge called Wormhole has been exploited for as much as $320 million according to reports emerging on Feb. 3. The team posted a notice that the bridge had been hacked losing 120,000 wrapped ...
Ethereum-Solana Bridge Warmhole Exploited In A Massive $300 Million Hack
On Wednesday, February 2, one of the most popular crypto bridge networks connecting the Ethereum and the Solana blockchains has faced a massive hack of a staggering $320 million. Warmhole has appraise...
Wormhole token bridge loses $321M in largest hack so far in 2022
The Wormhole token bridge experienced a security exploit today, resulting in the loss of 120,000 wETH tokens ($321 million) from the platform. Wormhole is a token bridge that allows users to send and ...
Nearly $2.3 Billion Worth of Bitcoin Moved Out of Wallet Involved in 2016 Bitfinex Hack: Whale Alert
Nearly $2.3 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) stolen in the infamous 2016 Bitfinex exchange heist is moving to a new wallet. Crypto tracker Whale Alert reports that the hacker’s account shifted more than...
Bitfinex hack awakens as funds being transferred to a different wallet
Bitfinex is one of the popular crypto platforms which had faced a massive hack in 2016. Recently, $3.6 billion in BTC from the hack has been consolidated into a single address. The funds were moved an...
$3.6 Billion in Bitcoin From the 2016 Bitfinex Hack Consolidates Into a Single Address – Bitcoin News
Jamie Redman Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a ...
Bitcoin Stolen From Bitfinex Hack Moved For The First Time In Five Years
The Bitfinex hack had been one of the most popular hacks when it occurred. At that point, bitcoin was still in its very early stages and was still reeling from the Mt Gox shutdown even years later. Wh...
Over $3.6B in Bitcoin From 2016 Bitfinex Hack Is on the Move
A significant cache of Bitcoin stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hacking incident was moved on Tuesday morning. The movements were detected by blockchain analytics platform WhaleAlert, with the rec...
Over 60,000 BTC Worth $2.4B Stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex Hack Just Moved
A large chunk of the bitcoins stolen from the infamous 2016 Bitfinex hack was moved by the hackers to an unknown wallet earlier today. Bitfinex 2016 Hacked Funds on the Move According to data from the...
$750 Million In Bitcoin (BTC) Stolen From the 2016 Bitfinex Hack Is On the Move
A massive quantity of Bitcoin is on the move previously linked to the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack. Just today, popular Twitter handle Whale Alert has reported two such instances wherein Bitcoins worth...
Binance Has a $1B War Chest for Hack Protection
Share this article Binance shared the wallet addresses for the fund in a bid to improve its transparency. Binance Secure Asset Fund Hits $1B Binance is taking big steps to protect itself against a po...
$80M Stolen From BSC-Based Qubit Finance In Latest DeFi Hack
A hacker has stolen $80 million in Binance Coin (BNB) after exploiting a critical vulnerability issue in the smart contract code deployed by decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Qubit Finance on its ...
DeFi protocol Qubit Finance exploited for $80 million in a recent hack
Losing $80 million worth of BNB tokens in a recent hack, Qubit Finance joined the unfortunate list of exploited DeFi protocols on Binance Smart Chain (BSC). The DeFi lending protocol reported the inci...
Qubit Finance suffers $80 million loss following hack
High-profile hacks have become more prevalent throughout the cryptocurrency market, and Qubit Finance is one of the latest decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols to be exploited by hackers. Hackers we...
How did hackers bypass 2FA during the $35 million Crypto.com hack?
As the dust settles on the recent Crypto dot com hack, observers wonder how thieves managed to crack security procedures to steal millions in crypto. Crypto dot com has not released precise details on...
Police Investigation in India Reveals Link Between Crypto Hack and Hamas
An investigation by the Delhi Police’s Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Ops (IFSO) division, which spanned five months, has reportedly revealed that Hamas was behind a cryptocurrency wallet hack, per...
Crypto.com Admits $35 Million Hack
Crypto.com announces multiple updates following a hack that resulted in millions in total losses, … [+] though the exchange said all affected individuals were reimbursed. (Photo illustration by ...
Nearly $1.5M in Ethereum Still Missing From Multichain Crypto Hack
A white-hat hacker has returned 322 Ethereum (around $900,000) after an exploit drained Multichain users of more than $3 million worth of crypto this week. Up to $1.5 million worth of Ethereum is sti...
Lossless Vault Protection Stops a Hack and Saves $55,000 for gotEM
Just a month ago Lossless launched a tool called Vault Protection and it already proved to be successful against hacks. gotEM, a crowdsourcing DeFi platform enabling private investigations, private se...
Crypto.com hack revealed: Attackers stole $34 million from 483 accounts
The leading cryptocurrency exchange crypto.com suffered a breach on its platform on 17 January, and the community had since been waiting for a detailed analysis of the hack to be released. While sever...