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Phishing scam via fake Zoom link costs GIGA investor $6M

DIGIT — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 07:26:34 +0000

A phishing scam through a fake Zoom link drained $6.09 million from a Gigachad token investor, igniting security concerns.

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WazirX hacker consolidates $57M ETH into new wallets

DIGIT — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 09:28:21 +0000

The hacker behind the $230 million WazirX hack has moved another $57 million of the stolen funds, as the exchange is doubling down on its bug bounty efforts.

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UwU Lend faces second hack during $20M reimbursement process

DIGIT — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:51:01 +0000

The UwU exploiter strikes again and steals $3.5 million from the lend protocol as it begins reimbursing hack victims.

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$20M exploit cripples Sonne Finance, hacker in no mood for negotiation

DIGIT — Wed, 15 May 2024 07:36:18 +0000

Sonne Finance halted operations after a hack drained $20 million in cryptocurrencies, including WETH and USDC. Efforts to recover the funds are ongoing.

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Game over! ‘Squid Game’-inspired crypto scam collapses as price crashes from $2.8K to zero

DIGIT — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 12:34:44 +0000

Dubbed SQUID, the cryptocurrency had rallied by as much as 75,000% to cross over $2,850 but dropped to near zero on Nov. 1.

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Phishing Attack on MyEtherWallet Steals $150,000 From Wallet Users

DIGIT — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:00:39 +0000

MyEtherWallet users are in an uproar after approximately 250 ETH, around $150,000 worth, went missing since a Domain Name System (DNS) server attack began Tuesday at noon, redirecting visitors to a phishing site. Kosala Hemachandra, Founder and CEO of MyEtherWallet, released this comment fifteen minutes after the attack: This redirecting of DNS servers is a decade-old hacking technique that aims to undermine the Internet’s routing system. It can happen to any organization, including large banks. This is not due to a lack of security on the @myetherwallet platform. It is due to hackers finding vulnerabilities in public-facing DNS servers. A majority of those affected

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$150 Million Worth of Nano Allegedly Stolen From Cryptocurrency Exchange BitGrail

DIGIT — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 03:31:31 +0000

$150 million worth of Nano, formerly known as RaiBlocks, were stolen from BitGrail, a cryptocurrency exchange based in Italy, merely two weeks after Coincheck experienced the largest cryptocurrency hacking attack in history. In an official statement, the Nano core team stated that Francesco “The Bomber” Firano, the owner and operator of BitGrail, notified the Nano team about the unauthorized movement of funds from the wallets of BitGrail to external wallets. During a conversation with the Nano core team, Firano suggested the Nano team to alter the ledger, or essentially fork the Nano blockchain, to restore the funds stolen from the

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