reader comments 54 with Police were called to dismantle a secret cryptomining rig winding throughout the floors and ventilation ducts of a Polish court in September, according to Polish news channel TVN24. Several secured computers were discovered, potentially stealing thousands of Polish Zlotys worth of energy per month (the equivalent of roughly $250 per 1,000 ..
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reader comments 123 with On Friday, Sam Bankman-Fried began his first day testifying before a jury with a loss. The FTX co-founder had intended to explain exactly how much he relied on lawyers to steer his decision-making amid the cryptocurrency exchange’s rise and collapse, but US District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that particular part of ..
reader comments 51 with Reddit’s Community Points, a blockchain-based rewards system for quality posts, comments, and other contributions in a subset of subreddits, is going the way of many similar tokens launched during the crypto boom times: away. As of November 8, coins like the “MOON” that r/CryptoCurrency used for tips, premium features, and even ..
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has to make some big decisions soon. Though now delayed, the SEC decision surrounding the spot Bitcoin ETF filing from BlackRock has everyone even remotely involved with crypto on the edge of their seats, and for good reason. BlackRock has ..
A recently introduced Google account sync feature has been blamed by software development firm Retool after sophisticated hackers gained access to its systems and targeted over two dozen of its customers from the cryptocurrency sector. Retool is a San Francisco, California-based company that provides a development platform designed for building custom business tools without the ..
North Korean hackers are suspected of stealing roughly $53 million worth of cryptocurrency from crypto exchange CoinEx, after a private key was leaked. The incident was identified on September 12, when the exchange observed “anomalous withdrawals from several hot wallet addresses” in which CoinEx was temporarily storing user assets. “It is currently preliminarily determined that ..
The FBI says that the North Korea-linked hacking group Lazarus is responsible for the theft of $41 million in cryptocurrency from online casino and betting platform Stake.com. The incident occurred on September 4, when the Australian-Curaçaoan online platform Stake.com announced that hackers had stolen funds from its Ethereum (ETH) and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) hot ..
Three bankrupt cryptocurrency companies — FTX, BlockFi and Genesis — have suffered data breaches following a SIM swapping attack that targeted risk and financial advisory firm Kroll. In a statement issued last week, Kroll said it had learned on August 19 that a threat actor had used SIM swapping to transfer an employee’s T-Mobile phone ..
Enlarge / Sam Bankman-Fried. reader comments 153 with A federal judge in New York today ordered disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s to jail after revoking his bail, The New York Times reported. Bankman-Fried had been under house arrest, but prosecutors convinced Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the Federal District Court in Manhattan that Bankman-Fried had ..
FT Montage/Bloomberg reader comments 167 with Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency project, the Worldcoin Foundation, is rolling out its services globally even as the company cofounded by the OpenAI chief faces regulatory pushback in the US. The Berlin and San Francisco-based start-up announced on Monday that its technology, including its Worldcoin token—a cryptocurrency traceable on the blockchain ..