Tag: Hacker
Microsoft Listing Fake Ledger App Leads to $590K of Bitcoin Stolen by Hackers
Hackers managed to steal 16.8 bitcoin [BTC] over the weekend after a fake Ledger Live app was posted on the Microsoft app store.
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Silk Road Hacker Jimmy Zhong Arrest Details Come to Light
“The government has certainly not been hurt by Jimmy’s conduct whatsoever,” Zhong’s attorney Michael Bachner told CNBC. He noted that if the governmen [...]
FTX hacker moves $120M amid Sam Bankman-Fried trial: Report
Anonymous hackers of the now-defunct exchange FTX have been moving large amounts of assets stolen from the platform, with new transactions occurring j [...]
FTX hacker could be using SBF trial as a smokescreen: CertiK
The hacker responsible for stealing over $400 million from FTX and FTX US in November could be using the hype around Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial t [...]
HTX claws back $8M in stolen funds, issues 250 ETH bounty to hacker
Huobi Global’s crypto exchange HTX has confirmed the return of the funds stolen by a hacker in late September and issued a 250 Ether (ETH) bounty afte [...]
Hacker of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX Moved 15,000 Ether (ETH) This Weekend
In November 2022, hours after FTX and its related companies filed for bankruptcy, an unknown party managed to drain various wallets of as much as $600 [...]
BNB hacker loses over $53M after getting liquidated in market crash
The sudden market crash in the crypto space liquidated many traders — and according to data shown on the blockchain, the attackers responsible for the [...]
Uniswap dev sacked for alleged rug, Steadefi hacker goes mixing and more
Uniswap dev loses job, was it worth it? A Uniswap developer known as “AzFlin” has been sacked by the founder of Uniswap Labs, Hayden Adams, for allege [...]
Victim of 90 ETH exploit set to claw funds back after hacker was blacklisted
With the help of police and cyber authorities, a victim of a hack worth 90 Ether (ETH) has gotten the attacker’s Tether (USDT) address blacklisted. As [...]
Binance invests $5M in Curve token as hacker partially returns funds
Binance Labs, the venture arm of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, has invested $5 million in Curve (CRV), the namesake token of the decentralized stab [...]
SteadeFi Crypto Protocol Lost $334,000 Of Funds To A Hacker
The DeFi application Steadefi fell victim to a hacking incident resulting to a loss of $334,000 worth of funds on August 7th. The Steadefi team confir [...]
JPEG’d confirms return of 5,495 ETH from Curve hacker
Nonfungible token finance (NFT-Fi) protocol JPEG’d has confirmed that 5,495 Ether (ETH), worth roughly $10 million at current prices, has been returne [...]
Curve hacker behind $61M heist begins returning funds
A miner extractable value (MEV) bot that drained 6,106 Ether from the Curve Finance pETH-ETH pool has returned most of the funds to the JPEG'd deploye [...]
New York Resident Ilya Lichtenstein Admits to Being Bitfinex Hacker in Court Appearance: CNBC
Lichtenstein, 35, conspired to launder 119,754 Bitcoin, worth roughly $71 million at the time of the hack of the exchange in 2016, alongside his wife [...]
Ethical hacker retrieves $5.4M for Curve Finance amid exploit.
A white hat hacker has managed to take around 2,879 Ether (ETH), worth around $5.4 million, from an exploiter and returned it to the decentralized fin [...]