Factom and the Blockchain Could Have Prevented Fidelity Bank Hack

Factom and the Blockchain Could Have Prevented Fidelity Bank Hack

Fidelity Bank is on the list of a growing number of institutions facing website defacement and theft of customer data. The entire financial sector is a target for hackers, as most of these institutions have poor security implementations on both their website frontends and their database backends. “Hack for Trump,” as the hacker collective responsible for....


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