Ankr, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol on the BNB chain, has been hit with a $5 million exploit. The hack occurred earlier Friday morning after the attacker took advantage of an unlimited mint ...
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27th Biggest Ethereum Whale in World Stole 100% of His Funds
We have already covered the bizarre situation on the Ethereum network where one of the biggest holders on the whole blockchain stole 100% of his holdings and now successfully trades them around, gradu...
Kraken CSO claims to Identify the Hacker Who Stole $600 Million From FTX
Going into the weekend, FTX developments kept the cryptocurrency market on its toes. After hearing that FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried had declared bankruptcy and resigned, FTX reported account access viol...
Crypto hackers stole more than $2.5 billion over three quarters in 2022
Cybercriminals are still aggressively exploiting blockchain technology and initiating scams, although the cryptocurrency industry is now experiencing a significant market correction. In the third qua...
Blockchain Hackers Stole Nearly Half a Billion in Q3 2022
Even though the cryptocurrency market is in a deep slump, cybercriminals are still actively hacking blockchain technologies or launching scams. According to the data analyzed by the Atlas VPN team, bl...
How Someone Stole 60 ETH Following the BNB Chain Hack
The past 24 hours were quite tumultuous, with one of the largest blockchain networks – BNB Chain – suffering a security breach that saw the millions worth of cryptocurrency being compromised. And whil...
Celsius sued Kefi, Claims Jason Stone Stole Over 1,000 ETH
KeyFi’s Jason Stone KeyFi as on Stone of KeyFi suit against Celsius in which it claimed KeyFi claimed that Celsius had a debt to KeyFi “millions of dollars,” and then Celsius has responded by filling ...
Hacker stole $3.3 million from Ethereum ‘vanity addresses’ created with Profanity tool
A hacker drained $3.3 million from multiple Ethereum addresses generated with a tool called Profanity, according to on-chain data from Etherscan. Anonymous security analyst ZachXBT first noticed the e...
YouTuber with 13 million subscribers hacked by crypto scammers; Here’s how much they stole
Popular YouTuber Scuba Jake has confirmed the hacking of his channel with over 13 million subscribers. The September 9 incident saw crypto scammers take over the channel and attempt to defraud unsuspe...
Binance Identifies Suspects Who Stole From KyberSwap Whales
KyberSwap has offered a 15% bounty to its hackers if the stolen funds are returned Binance previously helped recover funds stolen from Curve Finance and Axie Infinity Binance may have helped crack las...
Teenage Hacker Who Stole $35 Million Behind Beeple and Other Hacks?
According to what seems like a mix of investigative work and conspiracy theories, a Twitter user has figured out the prime culprit behind recent attacks on Beeple and other prominent NFT artists. A Tw...
Report shows cybercriminals stole more than $100M in NFTs
More than $100 million worth of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has been stolen over the past year, according to a report by Elliptic. The report published on Wednesday titled “NFTs and Financial Crime” lo...
Cybercriminals Stole NFTs Worth Over $100M, With 52% Processed Through Tornado Cash
According to a recent study from the blockchain security and analytics firm Elliptic, cybercriminals stole more than $100 million worth of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) between July 2021 and July 2022. ...
Celsius sues KeyFi, alleges Jason Stone stole over 1,000 ETH of investor funds for NFTs
Jason Stone of KeyFi filed a lawsuit against Celsius, claiming that Celsius owed KeyFi “millions of dollars,” and now Celsius returned fire by suing KeyFi and Jason Stone for the mismanagement and the...
Here’s How Hackers Stole Millions From A Bitcoin ATM In An Ingenious Move ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     A group of hackers pilfered bitcoin from an ATM operated by General Bytes. The hackers broke into the servers through a bug that gave them administra...
Hacker stole from clients making deposits on Bitcoin ATMs
A hacker stole crypto funds from customers making deposits at General Bytes Bitcoin ATM machines, according to an advisory published this week. The hacker modified the crypto settings of two-way machi...
Hackers Stole Almost $2 Billion Worth of Crypto in July 2022: Report
Arman Shirinyan While illicit activity took almost $2 billion of users’ funds, there are some bright spots in Chainalysis report Despite the overall downfall of the digital assets industry that ...
Velodrome says team member stole $350,000 from the project’s wallet
Velodrome, a decentralized exchange (DEX), has identified a former team member as being the person responsible for a $350,000 theft that occurred earlier in August, the platform announced on Saturday....
Someone stole your NFTs on OpenSea? Here’s what you can do
As the cryptocurrency industry grows larger, it has become abundant with scammers and thieves, with non-fungible tokens (NFTs) proving to be an increasingly attractive target, especially considering t...
California Man Must Pay $61K in Restitution for SIM Swap Scam That Stole One Victim’s Crypto
Richard Yuan Li, whom prosecutors had charged with one count of conspiracy to commit felony wire fraud, and co-conspirators stole the crypto from an unnamed New Orleans physician after gaining access ...
Curve Finance DNS Hijacked, Attackers Stole $570K from User Wallets
In another major security incident in the crypto space, decentralized crypto exchange Curve Finance found its DNS being hijacked. The hackers managed to deploy a malicious contract on the home page, w...
Attackers stole $6 million from Audius by exploiting a bug in the contract
Decentralized music streaming platform Audius was exploited on July 23 when an attacker exploited a vulnerability in its governance smart contract code. According to Audius’ analysis of the hack, the ...
How Attackers Stole Around $1.1M Worth of Tokens From Decentralized Music Project Audius
After Proposal #85 was put up, a transaction was executed that delegated some 10 trillion AUDIO towards the votes, thus skewing the proposal in favor of the attacker. Circulating supply was unaffected...
A hacker stole $375,000 from users of Premint NFT platform
On Sunday, a hacker compromised the official website of an NFT whitelisting platform called Premint to steal $375,000 worth of NFTs. According to security firm CertiK, a black hat hacker injected a ma...
How A Hacker Stole The Show On Former CEO Jack Dorsey’s Resignation Day
A hacker on former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s resignation day stole the show by adding Ethereum address to Twitter tips button. Twitter tip feature now caters to both iOS and android users. Jack ...
This Uniswap airdrop promised $2K — instead it stole $8M
Two Uniswap users handed over $8 million in bitcoin and ether after airdrop scammers tempted them with just $2,000 worth of the exchange’s native UNI token. On Monday, a phishing scam targeted Uniswap...
Hackers Stole $100k worth Of ERC-20 Tokens from Optimism NFT Marketplace
On Friday, Quixotic, a marketplace for Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) that was built on the layer-2 scaling solution Optimism, reported an attack that resulted in the loss of ERC-20 tokens worth a total o...
Hacker returns half of the $3.8 million they stole from NFT lender XCarnival
The hacker who exploited NFT lending pool XCarnival for 3,087 ETH ($3.8 million) has returned half of the loot, according to on-chain security researcher and ZenGo co-founder Tal Be’ery. As an NFT len...
Hacker Stole NFTs Worth 3,000 ETH and Then Returned Half of It, Here’s How
Contents How did the hack happen? The good end The “Metaverse Asset Bank,” Carnival, which experienced a smart contract exploit in a flurry of transactions and led to the gain of around 3,...
How Chicken Thighs Stole The Show In Creative Commerce At The Cannes Lions
Rick Ross, Wingstop franchisee and brand ambassador. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage) WireImage This week, the world’s advertising, communications and marketing cognoscenti once again descended on th...
Crypto entrepreneur Jeff Huang allegedly stole 22,000 ETH, ran over 10 failed projects
? Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! Jeffrey Huang, a tech entrepreneur, former musician, and one of the largest holders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, allegedl...
South Korean Police Investigate Employee Who Allegedly Stole Bitcoin
Tomiwabold Olajide Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency is reportedly launching inquiry against Terraform labs employee In the wake of disappointing utter collapse of original Terra, the Seoul Metropolita...