An attacker manipulated a “claim multiple” bug in a Level Finance smart contract to steal more than 214,000 LVL tokens from the exchange. Decentralized exchange Level Finance has experienced a security breach allowing an attacker to steal more than $1 million of the exchange’s native Level Finance (LVL) token. Level Finance informed its 20,000 Twitter…
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On April 14, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the Southern District of New York revealed that the hacker responsible for the Silk Road marketplace breach had been sentenced to a year in prison for wire fraud charges. James Zhong stole more than 50,000 bitcoin from the darknet marketplace (DNM) in September 2012. DOJ…
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Singapore-based crypto exchange Bitrue has lost millions of U.S. dollars’ worth of ether and other coins in a hack. The trading platform suspended withdrawals until early next week to conduct additional security checks and promised to compensate the affected users. Bitrue Exchange Loses Crypto Assets Due to Hot Wallet Exploit Cryptocurrency exchange Bitrue announced Friday…
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According to several reports, a bug introduced to the decentralized exchange (dex) protocol Sushiswap’s smart contract has resulted in more than $3 million in losses. The blockchain and smart contract security firm Peckshield explained the exploited contract was “deployed in multiple blockchains.” Dex Platform Sushiswap Suffers From Smart Contract Exploit Over the weekend, the dex…
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An exploit resulted in around $573,000 in crypto looted from Allbridge, but the hacker has now seemingly accepted the offer of a “white hat bounty.” A large portion of the roughly $573,000 pilfered from the multichain token bridge Allbridge has been returned after the exploiter seemingly took up the project’s offer for a white hat…
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Allbridge offered a hacker who pilfered $573,000 from its platform a chance to come forward as a white hat and forgo any legal ramifications. The attacker behind a $573,000 exploit on the multichain token bridge Allbridge has been offered a chance by the firm to come forward as a white hat and claim a bounty.…
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The Wormhole exploiter appears to be seeking arbitrage opportunities with Ethereum-pegged assets. The ill-gotten crypto from one of the industry’s largest exploits is on the move again, with on-chain data showing another $46 million of stolen funds has just shifted from the hacker’s wallet. The Wormhole attack was the third-largest crypto hack in 2022, resulting…
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A hacker who stole 120,000 ETH tokens, worth above $321 million at the time, from the Wormhole cross-chain bridge has started moving funds, according to various on-chain analysts. On the 23rd of January, the hacker moved $155 million worth of Ether tokens to 1Inch, a decentralized exchange (DEX)…. Read More: $321 Million Wormhole Hacker is…
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Authorities in Vietnam have caught and sentenced a hacker who stole money and data from a local cryptocurrency exchange. The man, who was arrested and charged for extorting the trading platform’s owner, has been ordered to return the money he misappropriated.
Vietnamese Court Jails Hacker for Attacking Crypto Exchange Website
A resident of Ho…
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On Nov. 29, 2022, the crypto supporter and reporter, Tiffany Fong, published an interview with the former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) that was recorded 13 days before the interview was released. During the interview, SBF discussed who he thinks may have hacked FTX and he further denied he had a backdoor installed to funnel…
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