Tagged: hacked

December 13, 2020 @ 7:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Russian hackers have apparently breached defenses at the US Department of Treasury monitoring emails for months, according to a report. Treasury was not alone, according to Reuters, the US Department of Commerce reportedly issued a statement on the breach to their systems: “We have asked… Read More

July 15, 2020 @ 6:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) was hacked today and the perps used prominent accounts to pilfer crypto, according to multiple reports. Apple, Uber, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Joe Biden, Warren Buffet, and yes, even Kanye West more were said to be targets of the scam. The Tweets were… Read More

December 1, 2019 @ 7:21 pm By Cali Haan  |  

After suspending deposits and withdrawals and conducting “an emergency server check,” Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit has notified users that it was hacked. The announcement appears as a notice on the exchange’s website: “My name is Lee Seok-Woo, CEO of Doo-Tum…At 1:06 PM on November 27,… Read More

August 31, 2018 @ 5:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

“Optimized utility, fortress-like security, and absolute ease of use.” (just kidding) BitFi has decided it is hackable. That’s a shame. In a dramatic mea culpa via Twitter yesterday,the crypto wallet issued the following statement; “As part of our ongoing efforts to protect our customers, we… Read More

June 6, 2018 @ 11:16 am By Cali Haan  |  

ZenCash, a privacy coin and fork of ZClassic, which is itself a fork of ZCash, a privacy coin once recommended by Edward Snowdon, has been hacked. For four hours starting around 10:30 pm Sunday, June 3rd, a hacker gained majority control over the relatively small… Read More

May 25, 2018 @ 7:41 am By Cali Haan  |  

Hackers have successfully executed attacks on three cyrptocurrency blockchains in the past week. Verge, Bitcoin Gold and MonaCoin were all robbed of coins in the attacks. The network of a purported privacy coin called Verge was successfully hijacked last weekend when hackers hijacked the network… Read More

April 24, 2018 @ 11:03 am By Cali Haan  |  

A user of the MyEtherWallet reported on Reddit about one hour ago that their wallet has been hacked for .09 ETH. The user logged into their wallet this AM and noticed that the wallet interface had an “invalid connection certificate” in the corner. The user… Read More

April 16, 2018 @ 7:57 am By Cali Haan  |  

Popular initial coin offering (ICO) investor and YouTube influencer Ian Balina has reported on Twitter, Telegram, and Instagram that he has been hacked. The hack may have been initiated during a live ICO-review broadcast Balina hosted last night on Youtube. In it, Balina responded to… Read More

April 5, 2018 @ 5:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Verge Currency (XVG) has been hacked and to deal with the attack the company is implementing a fork in the code. There is a thread on BitcoinTalk that apparently outlines the attack. OCMiner explains: Due to several bugs in the XVG code, you can exploit… Read More

November 8, 2017 @ 9:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Electroneum, a company that recently raised $40 million in an initial coin offering (ICO), has enlisted the assistance of Hackerone following a “real, credible, security threat” to their platform. Electroneum has prominently promoted its platform as a “super Secure – unhackable offline wallet” that is… Read More

September 11, 2017 @ 3:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equifax, the global credit rating firm, publicly acknowledged its systems had been compromised and user information had been stolen. The data breach is one of the largest of its kind ever and stands to put millions of Equifax user information at risk. In fact, 143… Read More

October 2, 2015 @ 7:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Patreon, a rewards-based crowdfunding platform that focuses on musicians and other content creators has been hacked. CEO and founder Jack Conte posted a notice on the site this past Wednesday that hackers had breached the site, including the database that held user data.  Fortunately, no… Read More

August 24, 2015 @ 5:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last month, President of  C.Y.C.I  (The Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq) and Québec resident, Steve Maman, took to crowdfunding platform GoFundMe with a mission to raise $2 million to free the Christian and Yazidi children in Iraq from the horrifying conditions they are… Read More

January 6, 2015 @ 9:53 am By JD Alois  |  

In an “important message” customers, BitStamp announced it has temporarily suspended all services as it investigates a security breach where “operational wallets” were compromised.  According to the popular Bitcoin exchange, hackers stole “less than 19,000 BTC” or approximately $5 million – a sizable amount but… Read More

October 27, 2014 @ 9:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Two crowdfunding related sites ClickStartMe and CrowdItForward have been hacked.  The sites have been replaced with an “I Love You Isis” page. The part Arabic and part English page advocates the state of Islam and the elimination of “America and the allies of the infidels”…. Read More

February 17, 2014 @ 11:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

@konklone @xor @knowtheory it’s a complex situation that is fortunately new for us. We are working hard to respond, with hopefully more soon — Fred Benenson (@fredbenenson) February 17, 2014 Kickstarter engineer Fred Benenson was vocal on this Hacker News thread about revelations that Kickstarter… Read More

February 16, 2014 @ 7:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter, a leading global rewards based crowdfunding platform, announced yesterday their platform had been attacked and user account information had been accessed.  Reportedly the information accessed did not include credit card information but did include users personal information. In a new post, Kickstarter has added… Read More

February 15, 2014 @ 4:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Company Claims No Credit Card Information Has Been Stolen. In a note to users of the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, CEO Yancy Strickler announced that unauthorized access to customer data had occurred as hackers had compromised the Kickstarter platform. The information was said to have come… Read More