BTC Stolen From BTCJam In Ongoing Heist: Hacker Has Been Identified... Heartbleed Might Be Involved
BTCJam releases statement as promised. The Bitcoins have moved to 1687v9NexfUC6U6G1xBrEkLWYi3WSDn4qL and are being sent through Shared Coin into cold storage. BTCJam has gone offline for security updates with our servers. Email from BTCJam's Alexis Ajono: "If you guys believe your accounts were hacked, please send me an email. We are currently looking into this, and I am comprising a list of claims. Thank you, and please stand by for an official statement later on today." Original Story. Check out this Bitcoin Address: 1JBBbQkwR6qVmxyPq22VsfygeLdFYgqhmP. Over the last hour, Bitcoin has....
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This week on CCN, we learned about the massive Heartbleed bug, the potential future of Bitcoin with sidechains, SecondMarket's new bitcoin investment fund, exciting new Bitcoin services, and more. Check out some of our top stories this week (7 April - 13 April) on this CCN Week in Review. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHbL4xmbGts?rel=0]. Hacker Exploits Heartbleed Bug in BTCJam Heist. A programming error in OpenSSL versions 1.0.1 - 1.0.1f is causing panic across the Internet. Heartbleed is a very serious vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptographic library. OpenSSL is used....
BTCJam is a peer-to-peer bitcoin lending platform that has seen some successful bitcoin businesses born from its womb. Last night, reports started surfacing on Reddit that the site had gone down and immediately previous to that, some users saw their accounts emptied. The site has since been restored and the CEO has stated emphatically that no users will lose their coins. The CEO also has not confirmed this as a hack, noting only that they noticed some “invalid transactions[.]” He also stated that BTCJam keeps the vast majority of their holdings in cold storage. We are offline to resolve....
A hacker apparently so thrilled by a successful theft left behind over $1 million in a smart contract that was set to destruct, permanently ensuring the crypto could never be moved. In a rare comedic bungle among DeFi exploits, an attacker has fumbled their heist at the finish line leaving behind over $1 million in stolen crypto.Just after 8AM UTC on Thursday April 21st, blockchain security and analytics firm BlockSec shared it had detected an attack on a little known DeFi lending protocol called Zeed, which styles itself a “decentralized financial integrated ecosystem”.The attacker....
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The DAO hacker has moved his stolen Ethereum from the Ethereum Classic chain, donating part of it to the Ethereum Classic developers. The move of the stolen funds from the DAO hack occurred earlier this week. As his first action with the funds the hacker sent 1,000 ETC, about $1,500, to the address associated with Ethereum Classic’s development team, leading to speculation that the initial hack might have been motivated by a desire to fork Ethereum (which ended up being a result of the hack). Ethereum’s long and complicated hacking saga. The hacker exploited a vulnerability in the DAO’s....