It’s been a turbulent year for the cryptocurrency industry — market prices have taken a huge dip, crypto giants have collapsed and billions have been stolen in crypto exploits and hacks. It was ...
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2022 Saw Cross-Chain Bridge Hacks Dominate
After the collapse of many crypto giants like Celcius and FTX, the worrying rise of DeFi hacks has probably been the year’s second most notable trend. The most prominent of these is the cross-chain br...
3Commas claims responsibility for API breach that caused hacks
3Commas has announced that the company suffered a breach that led to the hack that saw platform users lose funds and digital assets. According to the report published last week, the traders were said ...
3Commas Admits It Was Source of API Leak That Led to Hacks
A group of traders last week said that $22 million worth of crypto had been stolen through compromised API keys from the trading platform 3Commas. On Wednesday, 3Commas admitted it was the source of t...
The biggest crypto hacks of 2022
In 2022, cryptocurrency-based projects experienced a series of devastating hacks and exploits in what’s considered the worst year ever when it comes to securing digital assets. Overall, the fr...
Binance warns about 3Commas API leak, says users should disable keys
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said he’s “reasonably sure” there were “wide spread API key leaks” from trading-bot platform 3Commas after fresh speculation about an October i...
Biggest Crypto Hacks Of The Year And How Much They Swept
Crypto Hacks Of The Year: This year turned out to be the toughest year in the cryptocurrency market till now. The year was filled with collapse and hacks. Let’s have a look at the biggest and worst ha...
BTC.com parent BIT Mining hacked, $3 million in assets taken
BTC.com parent company BIT Mining Limited said it was hacked earlier this month, with about $700,000 in client assets and $2.3 million in company assets stolen. The publicly-traded firm said it ...
BitKeep crypto wallets hacked after thieves create ‘unofficial’ Android app
BitKeep user wallets have been hacked and funds stolen. The theft appears to have occurred on unofficial APK package downloads that were hijacked and installed with code implanted by hackers. So...
Iran Hacks U.S. Servers So It Can Mine Cryptocurrency
Hackers from the sanctioned nation of Iran have allegedly hacked several servers of the United States government as a means of installing software to mine digital currencies. These hackers also allege...
Top DeFi hacks and exploits of 2022
The collapse of centralized crypto firms became the biggest news stories in 2022, with Celsius and FTX dominating mainstream coverage. CeFi also experienced its share of hacks, such as exchanges Crypt...
Bitcoin Ransoms Aren’t Dead: EV Maker NIO Refuses To Pay Up
Bitcoin-hungry hackers have unsuccessfully held Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO to ransom and are now selling sensitive customer data online for crypto. Earlier this month, hackers emailed NIO dema...
Dr. Adam Back shares his life of hacks
It’s been a life of hacks for Dr. Adam Back, the CEO and co-founder of Blockstream. One of the few people quoted on the Bitcoin Whitepaper, hacking highlights of Back’s life are brought to life in the...
With So Many Crypto Exchange Hacks In 2022, Is Trading Still Safe?
Advertisement     Cryptocurrency exchanges are the most popular platforms for traders looking to buy and sell different tokens, as they make it easy to swap assets in ...
Coinsquare confirms data breach, says customer assets ‘not at risk’: CoinDesk
Canadian crypto firm, Coinsquare, shed more light on a “data incident” in an email the exchange sent to customers on Friday, according to a CoinDesk report. The incident initially occurred on No...
Recent FTX hacks prove it was right to ‘secure’ its assets: Bahamian regulator
The Securities Commission of The Bahamas says the continued “hacking attempts” on FTX’s digital assets prove they made the right call to take control of the exchange’s assets on Nov. 12. In a stateme...
All Eyes on Hacked FTX Funds, ETH Market
The crypto community is closely monitoring hacked FTX funds. After on-chain analysts observed the FTX hacker, dubbed “FTX Accounts Drainer,” dumping ether for bitcoin, the price of the ether sta...
US workers are earning just 12 cents more now than they did in 1972 — adjusted for inflation. Try these 3 easy hacks to make your dollar fly further
‘Something that should concern us all’: US workers are earning just 12 cents more now than they did in 1972 — adjusted for inflation. Try these 3 easy hacks to make your dollar fly further Rampant inf...
Developers could have prevented crypto’s 2022 hacks if they took basic security measures
Users losing funds due to malicious activity is hardly unknown on Ethereum. In fact, it is the very reason researchers recently developed a proposal to introduce a type of token that is reversible in ...
Bitcoin Blasts to $21K, Dogecoin Rollercoaster, More Crypto Hacks: This Week’s Recap
The past seven days have been particularly dynamic in the cryptocurrency industry as its total market capitalization soared by a considerable $70 billion. This happened on the back of major gains for ...
DappRadar’s October Report: crypto market continues to grow despite record hacks
DappRadar’s latest report has revealed that the crypto market has continued to grow despite the rampant crypto hacks. The market is now worth more than $1 trillion. The number of Unique Active Wallets...
With Hacks at a Record High, Crypto Needs to Find Better Ways to Keep Users Safe
Experts have criticized that data, which analyzed 27,000 tokens, saying that not every low-effort phishing or pyramid scheme has takers. Some, like Mark Zeller, vice president of the DeFi committee a...
Crypto crime spree continues with Deribit and Solend hacks
The world of crypto is a minefield of hacks, scams, and rug pulls. The maxim “not your keys, not your coins” advises against trusting centralized exchanges but, as today’s news about crypto exchange D...
PeakShield Published Surpassing Data About Hacks in Crypto October as “Hacktober”
October of 2022 is the month in which the most number of crypto loots occurred. According to recent reliable data, October of 2022 has overtopped all previous records of hacks in the crypto sector a...
Rethinking Interoperability After String of Crypto Hacks
The crypto bridge was once heralded as the future of blockchain interoperability. Industry leaders branded these products as a means to leverage the community of one chain with the performance of anot...
A Roundup of the Crypto Industry Hacks and Heists in October – crypto.news
Despite the current crypto market downturn, bad actors have continued to cash out large amounts of money from the crypto-verse via hacks. Here’s a roundup of the major hacks, heists, and security brea...
Top 5 Largest Crypto Hacks in 2022
Cryptocurrency hacking is one of the most prevalent topics amid the crypto bear market in 2022. While October is currently the month with the highest hacking activity in the cryptocurrency space, the ...
Duo behind Silk Road takedown back fighting crypto crimes with Naxo
The new sheriff in town features some familiar faces. Naxo, a newly-launched cybersecurity firm, was co-founded by former FBI special agent Chris Tarbell and computer scientist Matt Edman. They both p...
Half of all DeFi exploits are cross-bridge hacks
According to a new report by crypto data aggregator Token Terminal, approximately 50% of exploits in decentralized finance, or DeFi, occur on cross-chain bridges. In two years’ time, more than $...
FTX Head SBF Proposes This Solution To Prevent Crypto Hacks
FTX Head SBF Proposes This Solution To Prevent Crypto HacksSBF new approach to prevent hacks October 20, 2022Sam Bankman-Fried has created a framework to limit the impact of hacks and exploits pl...