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Crypto hackers made off with an unprecedented $3.8 billion in 2022, led by North Korean-linked groups breaking their own theft records
Chainalysis said Lazarus Group, a North Korea-based cybercrime syndicate, was among the most prolif…
Carla Mozée
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Top cryptocurrency scams of 2019 — and how most hackers got away with it
Like any heist, pulling off a successful scam in only part of the story. A truly successful cr…
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Here's how much cryptocurrency scammers are making by ripping off 'greedy' investors
Anna Wu, the founder of Crypto Aware, told Business Insider: "Cryptocurrency is receiving more and …
Oscar Williams-Grut
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Cryptocurrency hacks and fraud are on track for a record number of incidents in 2021, data shows
$19.2 billion has been stolen through breaches and fraud in the last 10 years, said Crypto Head in …
Carla Mozée
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An official Google account on Twitter was hacked by cryptocurrency scammers trying to convince people to send them bitcoin
Twitter is well aware of the cryptocurrency scam since reports first surfaced back in July, wh…
Paige Leskin
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Hackers tied to North Korea stole $630 million in crypto last year in their biggest haul ever, UN reportedly finds
"It isn't a stretch to say that cryptocurrency hacking is a sizable chunk of the nation's economy,"…
George Glover
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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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Thieves stole potentially millions of dollars in bitcoin in a hacking attack on a cryptocurrency company
NiceHash is only the latest cryptocurrency company to suffer a major hack in recent months. Despite…
Becky Peterson
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Twitter is struggling to curb fake Elon Musk accounts promoting cryptocurrency scams
The scam itself is pretty simple: the scammer hacks a Twitter-verified account, changes the name to…
Sean Wolfe
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Tesla's Amazon cloud account was hacked and used to mine cryptocurrency
RedLock discovered the hack after it found an IT administrative console that didn't have a password…
Mark Matousek
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Gov. Cuomo says New York will launch a 'full investigation' into the Twitter hack that compromised accounts belonging to Obama, Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates, and more
Twitter has said that the hacks were carried out after attackers compromised a Twitter employee's a…
Aaron Holmes
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Report says North Korean hackers have been targeting South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges
Recorded Future released a full report on Tuesday analyzing the methods used in the recent Coinlink…
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
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Cyberattack brings a cryptocurrency exchange to its knees
And earlier this year, an estimated $280 million worth of the cryptocurrency ether was locked up by…
Frank Chaparro
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Hackers stole $60 million from a crypto exchange in Japan's second major bitcoin heist this year
In a statement following the hack, Tech Bureau said that its Zaif exchange was hacked in a window o…
Michael Selby-Green,Michael S…
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Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein: All the latest on the NYC couple arrested over alleged Bitfinex $4.5B bitcoin-laundering plot
Everything to know about the husband and wife techies that have been arrested and accused of launde…
Rob Price,Becky Peterson
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Hackers broke into the British Army's Twitter and YouTube accounts, sharing apparent videos of Elon Musk and NFT promotions
A spokesperson for the British Army confirmed that an investigation into the breach is ongoing and …