Bitcoin News Site Coinfire Under Fire: Website and Twitter Account Hacked
As Billy Joel once said, "We didn't start the [coin] fire..." Okay, he didn't exactly say that, but a fire in the digital currency world has indeed been started, and it all began with Josh Garza and GAW Miners and coverage relating to them on one Bitcoin news site. Following PayCoin's forced exit from altcoin exchange ShapeShift.io, currency creator Josh Garza was scheduled to make an appearance at this year's North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami. Due to rising concern over attendee reactions, Garza's appearance was ultimately cancelled, and recently the website coinfire.cf claimed....
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Unknown scammers have organized a fake bitcoin giveaway through a Russian government website they hacked. The news of the attack comes after a recent report revealed that damages from crypto-related fraud in Russia have reached $30 million in value in the first half of this year.
Regional Government Website in Russia Hacked by Scammers
The main website of the local administration in the Russian city of Ryazan, around 200 km southeast of Moscow, has been targeted by hackers twice in a single day, Rzn.info reported quoted by the crypto news outlet Forklog. The unidentified....
The fake website is actively promoting a fake giveaway of 500,000 USDT while asking users to connect their wallets (such as MetaMask) to claim the rewards. Hackers took over the official Twitter account of crypto exchange Gate.io, putting over 1 million users at risk of losing funds to an ongoing fraudulent Tether (USDT) giveaway.Social media platform Twitter serves as the most effective medium to reach the crypto community. As a result, the trend of hacking into official Twitter handles of verified accounts to promote scams is on the rise.Hackers of unknown origin took over Gate.io’s....
The official Twitter account of Belgium’s Minister of Energy was the recent victim of a high-profile hacking incident. Tinne Van der Straeten’s profile was hacked to promote a bogus giveaway of ethereum tokens. Hacked Twitter Accounts Whoever was behind the incident changed the minister’s verified profile to “Ethereum Foundation” to make it look legit. First reports indicated that a fake giveaway of 50,000 ETH started to spread out over Van der Straeten’s account. But no tweets were seen at the time the minister’s staff restored the account.....
“Just a quick note to say that we were hacked and the hackers still have control of our email account [email protected],” the family of convicted Silk Road administrator, Ross Ulbricht, announced this morning. “We have been told they are soliciting funds with it, posing as us. Any email from that address, until further notice, is NOT legitimate!....