White Hat Hacker Protects Coinbase From Danger By Spotting Threat
A White Hat hacker’s prompt intervention saved Coinbase’s sophisticated trading platform from disaster. “Tree of Alpha,” a White Hat Hacker, contacted Coinbase Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong to warn him that third-parties could theoretically transfer Coinbase order books at arbitrary rates, which might result in a big payout for criminals. Coinbase announced in a statement […]
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The white-hat hacker responsible for discovering a crisis-level flaw in Coinbase API said the $250K bounty was not "too low." On February 11th, two days before the Super Bowl and Coinbase’s $14 million color-changing QR code advert, an engineer was desperately trying to reach out to Coinbase management and the development team.Anyone here can get me a direct line with someone at @coinbase , preferably management or dev team, possibly @brian_armstrong himself? I'm submitting a hacker1 report but I'm afraid this can't wait. Can't say more either, this is potentially market-nuking. DMs open.—....
White hat hacker Samczsun from investment firm Paradigm reported what could be one of the biggest rescues ever on the SushiSwap protocol, the Ethereum ecosystem, and maybe the entire internet. Just pulled off maybe the biggest whitehat rescue ever. Story time soon 🔥 — samczsun (@samczsun) August 17, 2021 Samczun claimed in a post that he found and help patch a vulnerability that was threatening over $350 million or 109,000 ETH from a Sushiswap based contract from its MISO platform. The white hacker reviewed the contract after he found there was a new auction taking place on the....
Arbitrum, a popular Layer 2 solution for Ethereum, got involved with a white hat hacker on September 19. According to a source, the hacker discovered a potential vulnerability in Arbitrum’s code. As a result, the network used 400 ETHs, worth about $560,000, as a pay-off. Over the years, many hacks and exploits have hit the […]
The Crema Finance team awarded the hacker who made off with nearly $10 million in funds from the protocol 16.7% of the stolen funds as a white hat bounty. The hacker who exploited Solana-based liquidity protocol Crema Finance on July 2 returned most of the funds but was allowed to keep $1.6 million as a white hat bounty.The bounty, 45,455 Solana (SOL), is worth a generous 16.7% of the $9.6 million Crema lost initially, which forced the protocol to suspend services. Crema’s team began an investigation to identify the hacker by tracking their Discord handle and tracing the original gas....
Today, I had the privilege of chatting with johoe, the white hat hacker who swept over 800 bitcoins from addresses generated with a security error on Blockchain.info's webwallet. After learning that the insecure addresses were generated on Blockchain.info, johoe returned all of the bitcoins he obtained to Blockchain.info, so they could refund users who lost their bitcoins. johoe is considered to be a white hat hacker because he hacked ethically. johoe continues to return bitcoins to Blockchain.info as he finds them. johoe has received praise from bitcoiners on reddit, BitcoinTalk, and....