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Alums of $16 billion Tiger Cub Lone Pine have struggled to hack it on their own — with one notable exception
Mala Gaonkar's SurgoCap is now managing more than $3 billion.
Bradley Saacks
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Crypto VC firm ‘jumps’ in to restore Wormhole’s supply after DeFi hack
To be fair, Jump Crypto owns Certus One, the developer behind the Wormhole token bridge. The $…
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WazirX suspends withdrawals after $230 million worth of cryptos stolen in a hack
WazirX, India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange on Thursday reported a massive security breach on i…
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Crypto DeFi protocols lost $1.4 billion this year but recovered over half of it
Decentralised finance (DeFi) applications have been growing multi-fold this year, and so have the e…
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Cryptos, DeFi are soft targets for cyber hackers says a Moody’s report
FTX, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange, is the latest victim of hackers who stole …
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Hackers stole $322 million in 2022’s largest DeFi hack so far — $10 million is being offered for its return
Wormhole’s token bridge was hacked on February 2, and hackers stole Solana tokens worth $322 millio…
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Veteran analysts say the world's biggest private-equity firm could be in big trouble
Blackstone's real-estate fund, BREIT, boasts assets of $114 billion. But is it a house of cards?
Bethany McLean
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Over $600 million has been stolen from DeFi platform Poly Network in one of the biggest crypto heists of all time - but the hacker has returned some of the cash already
The hacker appeared to be returning part of their loot to Poly Network after saying they would do s…
Sophie Kiderlin
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A cryptocurrency firm that was the victim of a $600 million heist has asked the hacker responsible to be its chief security advisor
"We cordially invite Mr. White Hat to be the Chief Security Advisor of Poly Network," the company s…
Isabelle Lee
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Poly Network says all $610 million stolen by a hacker has been returned after Tether released the final $33 million
Poly Network has taken the unusual step of embracing the apparent hacker, who stole $610 million in…
Harry Robertson
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$3.7 billion was lost to crypto scams and hacks in 2022 - the worst year in the market's history
Attacks against decentralized finance projects accounted for around 80% of the stolen funds, accord…
Morgan Chittum
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Binance, the world's biggest crypto exchange, was hacked, and around $100 million worth of Binance Coin was stolen, CEO says
The current impact estimate is around $100 million, about "a quarter of the last BNB burn," the CEO…
Nidhi Pandurangi
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Binance, the world's biggest crypto exchange, was hacked, and around $100 million worth of Binance Coin was stolen, CEO says
The current impact estimate is around $100 million, about "a quarter of the last BNB burn," the CEO…
Nidhi Pandurangi
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Poly Network hacker rewarded with a $500,000 'bug bounty' for helping the DeFi platform improve security
Poly Network said it hopes the hacker will contribute to the blockchain sector's development upon a…
Isabelle Lee
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Some of the biggest cryptocurrency HODLers are also crypto criminals, finds Chainalysis report
More than 4,000 of the biggest cryptocurrency accounts have gotten their tokens through illicit mea…
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Former Amazon engineer pleads guilty to stealing $12.3 million of crypto in first ever hacking case involving smart contracts
A former Amazon engineer pleaded guilty to hacking two crypto exchanges and stealing $12.3 million …
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert,…
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I ditched productivity hacks and it worked, but I'm still going back. Here's what it taught me about organizing my workweek.
Calendar blocking and forward planning were Anna Codrea-Rado's working-from-home routine. She exper…
Anna Codrea-Rado
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The hacker behind the biggest heist in crypto is now refusing to return the remaining funds
The USDT account the attacker is referring to has $33 million in stablecoins. Tether has fro…
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A DeFi hacker compromised a lesser-known protocol but forgot to take their winnings
Hackers can cause devastating losses to decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms, but sometimes they …
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Cyber hackers have returned nearly half of the $600 million they stole from DeFi platform Poly Network
Poly Network's pleas for the money back appear to be working. The hackers said they stole "for fun …