Breaking News: Online Dogecoin Wallets Hacked
Instadoge.net defaced with this picture, along with the text: "#team-ooga That makes 30m + 500k. Thanks." and a link to a Dogecoin address, presumably belonging to the thief or thieves. Online Dogecoin wallets hacked, with over $13k worth of DOGE reported stolen so far. This is a sad turn of events for the generally light-hearted Dogecoin community, which has been quick to offer moral and financial support to those "shibes" who lost money. First reported on the Dogecoin forum, it seems anyone who attempted to transfer coin from Dogewallet.com (currently closed for business with error....
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Czech Republic-based bitcoin exchange Bitcash.cz has been hacked and up to 4,000 customers' wallets have been emptied. The company's site is currently down, showing only a message informing of the hack, which took place on 11th November. According to Czech news site E15.cz, some 4,000 bitcoin wallets had been opened with Bitcash.cz, with a total value of over 2 million Czech koruna (roughly equivalent to $100,000). A post on the company's Facebook page reads (roughly translated): "Unfortunately, as we have already announced on our website Bitcash.cz, our server was attacked and compromised....
Andreas has a strong reputation as one of the most convincing proponents of Bitcoin. CoinChomp has covered the North American Bitcoin Conference better than anyone else on Twitter this weekend, and they just sent out a notification of breaking news at the event in Miami. [Big News] Nicholas just announced that @aantonop is officially joining http://t.co/dQnHuL5Mli as security advisor! pic.twitter.com/GQ5bTP7jH3. - CoinChomp (@CoinChomp) January 26, 2014. Andreas is everyone's favorite Bitcoin evangelist, so it's great to see him partner up with one of the largest online wallets in the....
Trojan Pony Botnet stole $220,000 from online wallets. A trojan named “Pony” has been blamed for stealing more than $220,000 worth of cryptocurrencies from users’ online wallets. Many of those users may still be unaware of their loss. Please note that a client wallet hosted on your PC or phone is not affected by this security alert. The trojan Pony, which operated as an advanced botnet between September 2013 and mid-January 2014, stole approximately 700,000 online credentials and successfully compromised 85 online wallets containing a range of cryptocoins – including Bitcoin. Since....
Oh, you topple central banks? We have a meme. Since Dogecoin's creation last December, there has oft been the murmur on social media by bitcoin enthusiasts calling it "another pump and dump" or a meme-ified Litecoin with inflation. Those accusations may be true, but in the eyes of Dogecoin enthusiasts (Shibes), they are assets. Dogecoin was never intended to be the government-breaking bank-challenger that bitcoin is. A co-founder of Dogecoin, Jackson Palmer, said to ABC, "People are trading coins for small purchases, like in an online game where you can purchase a different set of armor, I....
Reports reaching us at Bitcoinist are that the Justin Sun-led Poloniex crypto exchange has been hacked and the attackers are currently siphoning funds away from the exchange at an alarming rate. So far, over $60 million in crypto is suspected to be already stolen spanning digital assets such as Tron (TRX), Pepe (PEPE), and Magic […]