Bitcoin Heist At Home: Wife Uses CCTV To Pocket $176 Million
A bitter domestic dispute has spilled into the UK High Court after a man claimed a massive Bitcoin holding vanished from his control under unusual circumstances inside his own home. Related Reading: Bitcoin Bet Deepens As Metaplanet Raises $255 Million For Future Purchases Ping Fai Yuen has accused his estranged wife Fun Yung Li of […]
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In this day of mass surveillance and privacy awareness, CCTV cameras are often forgotten about. But as it turns out, these monitoring devices can serve an even nefarious purpose, albeit unwillingly. Security researchers uncovered a botnet operating on 25,000 CCTV cameras. This attack targeted a small jewelry store website, which was unavailable for several days. Although most people are well aware of how CCTV cameras are small computers, one would never think of them as a tool for hackers. Granted, camera surveillance hacking occurs in tv shows and movies for bank heists and whatnot. But....
In a quickly developing story, it appears that Home Depot has suffered a data breach that dwarfs the one suffered by Target last year. Early this morning, credit card information collected from what seems to be 2,400+ Home Depot stores around the world, was sold online by Eastern European hackers. The stolen information was sold on the underground store Rescator, which leads to suspicious that the same group of Russian and Ukrainian hackers that have previously infiltrated Target, Sally Beauty, and P. F. Chang's. The group is likely different from W0rm, a separate Russian hacker group. The....
Hackers exploited Qubit Finance’s protocols, a Decentralized Finance project (DeFi), and stole $80 million worth of cryptocurrencies on Thursday, making it the most famous crypto heist of 2022 to date. After the incident, the firm has been begging cybercriminals to return stolen funds to figure out the situation as many people have lost their hard-earned […]
Alex Mashinsky has gifted his wife Krissy 15 million CEL tokens worth $20 million for her birthday The founder of the crypto payments network Celsius has gifted his wife a large portion of the token supply, reducing his own enormous stake in the process.Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky gifted wife Krissy 15 million CEL tokens as a birthday present, worth an estimated $20 million at today’s prices.I gave my wife @KrissyMashinsky a very special present of 15,000,000 CEL tokens for her very special birthday. She has been with me through it all and ALWAYS supported me even when I made silly....
PRESS RELEASE. Pocket Network, a decentralized Web3 infrastructure provider that services blockchain data requests for applications and developers, is implementing key protocol changes after its community DAO voters rallied to boost network efficiency and bring costs down. As of late June, the Pocket DAO has passed two proposals with significant impacts on the incentive structure for nodes participating in Pocket Network’s protocol. Pocket’s protocol is serving approximately 1 billion RPC requests every day, and is on course towards a goal of supporting 100 blockchains before....