A 17-year-old teenager in Hillsborough County, Florida has been arrested in relation to the high profile Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) hack that recently occurred. Hillsborough county where Tampa is located. BREAKING: Hillsborough State Attorney @AndrewWarrenFL announces arrest of 17-year-old Graham Ivan Clark in “Bit-Con” hack… Read More
The Twitter hack that saw 130 different accounts compromised and embarrassed the popular social media company is still be sorted out. It has been reported that the FBI is involved in the investigation of how exactly the perpetrators gained access to prominent Twitter accounts… Read More
Digital asset exchange OKEx claims that it’s now among the first cryptocurrency exchanges to have partnered with the Web3 Foundation, an organization established to nurture and steward technologies in the fields of decentralized web software protocols. The OKEx team also confirmed that they’ve now listed… Read More
Twitter continues to dig through the rubble following the epic Twitter hack that saw approximately 130 high profile Twitter accounts hijacked with Tweets distributing a Bitcoin trap for the unsuspecting. Thank you for your continued patience and understanding while we investigate this incident. We’ll continue… Read More
The dust is yet to settle in the Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) hack that saw multiple high profile accounts hacked. Twitter continues to dig through the breech and earlier today, Twitter provided some additional insight as to how the individual was able to exploit the platform. Tough… Read More
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
Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, announced on Twitter December 11th that the company, “is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media…We’re calling this team @bluesky.” “The goal,” said Dorsey,… Read More
Jack Dorsey has reiterated his support for Bitcoin in an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, and says Twitter has no plans to create a private digital currency for that network. “I think open Internet standards serve every person better than ones controlled or started… Read More
Jack Dorsey, self-taught programmer and co-founder of Twitter and Square gave two interviews this week in which he talked up Square’s recent efforts to coalesce an in-house team of developers that will contribute to coding Bitcoin and possibly other cryptocurrencies. Square began by providing credit… Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a motion for an order to show cause, on February 25, why Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, should not be held in contempt for violating the terms of the Court’s October 16, 2018, Final Judgment. The agreed… Read More
Dr. Nouriel Roubini, also known as “Dr. Doom,” has extended his crypto / blockchain bashing on Twitter during the past few days. Following a widely viewed Senate Banking Committee hearing where Dr. Roubini submitted a 37 page document that eviscerated the concept of cryptocurrency calling… Read More
A well-known Quebec-based “cryptoevangelist” and YouTuber called Adam Guerbuez claims that an “ethereum giveaway” scammer soliciting via a bot on Twitter has claimed he or she is skimming up to $100 ooo in Ether (ETH) from “mooches” (targets) per day. The story is related in… Read More
Researchers at digital security firm Duo Security claim to have uncovered, “a sophisticated cryptocurrency scam botnet consisting of at least 15,000 bots,” broadcasting cryptocurrency giveaway and other scams on Twitter. The company made the claim in a paper released yesterday, two days ahead of a… Read More
Earlier this week the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of Small Business Policy held a Twitter chat on Tuesday entitled #SECcrowdfundchat. The lightly attended discussion was scheduled to help inform small businesses as to how they may legally raise growth capital. In the US today,… Read More
This crypto spoofing scam has become almost predictable as it happens all of the time. Crooks attempting to steal cryptocurrency will try and spoof Twitter accounts to make it look like a trusted, known individual or business is giving away ETH or BTC only to… Read More
It’s official. Twitter is following in the footsteps of its tech friends in banning cryptocurrency promotions. Most recently Google hit crypto with the ban hammer and not too long ago Facebook did the same. The news of the ban by Twitter has been circulating for… Read More
Social media giant Twitter is set to ban almost all cryptocurrencies and initial coin offering (ICOs) advertisements. According to SkyNews, Twitter may release a new advertising policy in two weeks that will prohibit advertisements for ICOs, token sales, and cryptocurrency wallets globally. The media outlet also revealed that… Read More
SoFi has shared that its Board of Directors has appointed Anthony Noto as Chief Executive Officer and a director, effective March 1. Rumors swirled earlier this week as it was confirmed that Noto, currently Twitter COO, was in discussion with the large Fintech firm to… Read More
Anthony Noto, Chief Operating Officer at Twitter, is expected to move into the CEO spot at Fintech platform SoFi, according to multiple reports. Noto is responsible for Twitter’s business operations and revenue generating organizations, including global advertising sales, global partnerships, business development, live content, data, revenue… Read More
On Thursday, UK-based fintech startup and read-only, anonymised Twitter client that blocks all broadcasting (Tweeting) and messaging, Market EarlyBird, announced it has formed a partnership with cloud-based workflow and collaboration platform, Symphony, for its new program EarlyBird for Symphony. According to Market EarlyBird, EarlyBird for Symphony… Read More
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