Bitcoin Lender Loanbase Breach Sees Atleast 8 Stolen BTC
Bitcoin lending platform Loanbase — formerly BitLendingClub — was the target of a recent security breach that saw a small number compromised user accounts lose at least 8 bitcoins. In an email sent to its customers yesterday, Loanbase revealed that it had discovered a security breach that occurred on the morning of February 6, 2016. The news was also shared on the company’s Facebook page, noting that the exploit targeted a security vulnerability in the WordPress blog. Preliminary investigation confirmed the breach of 4 user accounts and a loss of around 8 bitcoins (approx. $3000), although....
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Loanbase recently announced that they've discovered a security breach on their Wordpress blog that led to the loss of 8 BTC and malicious access to sensitive client information. A data breach at Bitcoin lending platform Loanbase led to the loss of customers’ bitcoins. The company, in its official statement, blamed a WordPress bug for the glitch, stating that the breach resulted into the loss of around 8 Bitcoins (equivalent to around $3,000). The money was stolen after an alleged hacking attempt on Loanbase’s four user accounts. Loanbase also clarified that the maximum losses don’t exceed....
Prominent Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange Bitfinex has announced that it has halted all trading on its platform while investigating a breach that has seen customers lose their funds due to theft. Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex has halted all trading on its platform, including all deposits and withdrawals. An announcement on its website has confirmed that Bitfinex users have had their bitcoins stolen, while the exchange investigates the security breach. No figures on the stolen bitcoin or the number of users impacted have been revealed yet. The statement read: We are investigating the breach to....
A darknet vendor called “DoubleFlag” is selling user data stolen between 2011 and 2017 from 11 bitcoin forums for traders and miners, according to Hackread.com. The selling price is $400 (0.3817 BTC). The heists include: • About 12 million data units from 536,727 MerlinsMagicBitcoin.com accounts stolen in January 2017. • 514,409 from BitcoinTalk.org stolen in May 2015. • 568,357 stolen from BTC-E in October 2014. • 21,439 stolen from BTC4Free in January 2014. • 3,153 from Bitcoin.Lixter.com in September 2014. • 1,780 from BitLeak.net in March 2014. • 28,298 from DogeWallet.com in January....
Bitfinex reports it has discovered a security breach that requires a halt to all trading on its platform. The exchange also claims that Bitcoins belonging to some of its users are stolen. The company states on its website: “We are investigating the breach to determine what happened, but we know that some of our users have had their bitcoins stolen. We are undertaking a review to determine which users have been affected by the breach. While we conduct this initial investigation and secure our environment, bitfinex.com will be taken down and the maintenance page will be left up.” Bitcoin....
Not too long ago, Verizon Enterprise Solutions suffered from a data breach as an unknown assailant managed to infiltrate their Enterprise Solutions division. Even though regular Verizon customers should not be affected by this breach, there is a particular worry regarding this data theft, as it could be used to develop new types of malware and ransomware attacks. Although those details have not been confirmed, the stolen information can be bought on the Darknet for US$100,000.