Hackers:  California resident Seth Shapiro has filed a lawsuit against wireless service giant AT&T alleging that its employees helped to perpetrate a SIM-swap which resulted in the theft of over $1.8 million in cryptocurrencies.  The complaint filed on Oct. 17 claims that Shapiro is “a two-time Emmy Award-winning media and technology expert, author, and adjunct […]

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Hackers:  A victim of a Muhstik Ransomware attack paid in bitcoin to unlock his files just to strike back and hack his hackers. In turn, he released nearly 3,000 decryption keys for other victims, along with free decryption software.  German programmer Tobias Frömel was forced to pay 0.09 BTC after attackers hacked into one of […]

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Hackers:  The hacker who stole 17 Ethereum domain names during the Ethereum Name Service’s auction decided to return them all.  On Oct. 4, digital-collectibles marketplace OpenSea said that all of the stolen ENS names were returned successfully and that bidding on domain names will restart again in the coming weeks.   In the beginning of September, […]

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Hackers:  North Korea has denied a recent U.N. report suggesting it was behind major hacks of banks and cryptocurrency exchanges that reaped around $2 billion for the nation’s weapons programs.  Reported by news sources on Sunday that a statement from the National Coordination Committee of the DPRK for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of […]

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Hackers:  If the CEO of two multi-billion-dollar companies can get hacked, you can too. Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, had his account “compromised,” acting as a reminder to people at high risk of hacking, such as Bitcoin holders, should be especially security conscious.  Twitter Comms, an official communication channel for the social media […]

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Hackers:  A British judge has ordered the confiscation of $1.1 million worth of cryptocurrency from a hacker who used phishing attacks to steal personal data and sell it on the dark web.  Reported on Aug. 23, judge Joanna Korner of Southwark Crown Court ruled that the police could confiscate $1.1 million worth of digital currency […]

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Hackers:  In a series of tweets on August 16th, the Twitter account known as Bnatov Platon published an outline of Binance Know-Your-Customer records allegedly in his or her possession.  The events lead on from the original hack scare which occurred earlier this month. As Cointelegraph reported at the time, Binance denied any compromise to its […]

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