Tagged: hack

July 1, 2018 @ 10:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital challenger bank Monzo reported on Friday that Typeform, a company they have utilized for user surveys, experienced a data breach that impacted some of their users. Tom Blomfield, CEO of Monzo, published a post on the Monzo blog outlining the attack. Monzo was quick… Read More

May 9, 2018 @ 7:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital Currency Dash CEO Ryan Taylor has been hacked. According to a statement released by Dash reps Taylor was the target of a concerted attack that impacted not just his Twitter account but LinkedIn and perhaps his cell phone too. Taylor released the following statement;… Read More

April 26, 2018 @ 8:43 am By Cali Haan  |  

The cofounders of Parity.io, a company that lost or lost access to nearly half a billion dollars of client funds last year, have stated in a blog post today that they are “deeply sorry” and have no intention of forking the Ethereum blockchain to recover… Read More

March 8, 2018 @ 3:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Binance team says protecting the security of trading on their exchange has always been their highest priority and today they have some real-world proof. According to an update from the Cryptocurrency exchange, their automatic risk management system kicked in when nefarious characters attempted to… Read More

February 13, 2018 @ 7:32 am By JD Alois  |  

BitGrail, the Italy-based cryptocurrency exchange that experienced a theft of 17 million NANO (XRB) – about $153 million at current exchange rates, has posted an update today regarding the hack. The good news for users of the exchange is Bitgrail states all other cryptocurrencies reman… Read More

February 11, 2018 @ 2:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitgrail is the next cryptocurrency exchange to experience an unfortunate hack – an event that highlights profound problems within the exchange space as cyber security continues to fall short. According to a post on the Bitgrail website, the company said internal checks revealed “unauthorized transactions which… Read More

January 28, 2018 @ 8:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Following the enormous theft of 523,000,000 XEM (NEM), Japan based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has announced it will reimburse all impacted investors. At current exchange rates, this means Coincheck will need to pay out over USD $523 million to the estimated 260,000 impacted users. At the time… Read More

January 27, 2018 @ 7:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Numerous reports are indicating leading cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has experienced a serious security breach. Estimates indicate that over $530 million in digital currency may have been stolen or about 58 billion yen of the virtual currency. Coincheck, based in Tokyo, has reported the “illegal outflow… Read More

December 7, 2017 @ 9:10 am By JD Alois  |  

It is quickly becoming a regular occurrence that a crypto exchange or wallet is hacked and unsuspecting users see their Bitcoins plundered. Yesterday, NiceHash had not so nice news as approximately $70 million in crypto was stolen. In a painful tweet, NiceHash shared the news;… Read More

November 21, 2017 @ 6:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tether, a company that is “Bringing real-world currency to the Blockchain” has been robbed of $30,950,010. The company is truly experiencing a real world currency issue as the money was stolen by an attacker and management is currently in the process of attempting to retrieve… Read More

November 17, 2017 @ 4:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Cappassity CEO Kosta Popov, who is gearing up for the ARToken ICO, has published a blog post that hammers Parity for its tepid response following a hack that froze possibly $300 million in Ethereum. The hack was revealed in early November when it became known that… Read More

November 15, 2017 @ 8:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Parity has taken a breather from its “all hands” call that went out last week when a nefarious character under the username of “devops199” destroyed the Parity library that blocked 587 wallets holding 513,774.16 ETH and a few other tokens. The vulnerability that devops199 uncovered allowed… Read More

November 9, 2017 @ 3:29 pm By Amy Wan and Daniel Rice  |  

Well, here we are again. On November 6, Parity encountered yet another failure, and the result? Reportedly, some $150 to $300 million dollars worth of Ether (we are hearing conflicting reports as to how much ETH has been frozen) is locked down, and we’re hearing… Read More

November 9, 2017 @ 11:17 am By JD Alois  |  

  Cappasity, a company in the midst of their own initial coin offering (ICO) that was impacted by the Parity multi-sig wallet hack, has called the hack a deliberate act of fraud. Cappasity told Crowdfund Insider; “Currently, we are running an ICO. On November 7,… Read More

November 8, 2017 @ 3:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Parity wallet revealed a critical security issue this week regarding a vulnerability in the Parity Wallet. Earlier today, the Parity team posted an update regarding the hack: We very much regret that yesterday’s incident has caused a great deal of stress and confusion amongst our users… Read More

October 2, 2017 @ 11:45 am By JD Alois  |  

SEC Chairman Jay Clayton has provided an updated on the intrusion into EDGAR that occurred back in 2016. Additionally, the SEC Chair said the Commission would be strengthening its defenses agains future attempts to hack the SECs systems. The investigation has now determined that an… Read More

February 18, 2014 @ 9:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

On this week’s episode of Inside Crowdfunding, we talk to Adam Draper of Boost.vc about his accelerator and the culture around accelerators in general. He shares some information about the cool stuff coming out of the companies in his portfolio. Of course, Draper is also bullish on… Read More