Pump Fun Implodes: Ex-Employee Turned Hacker Exposes Alleged Shady Practices
Jarett Dunn, the alleged hacker behind the Pump Fun exploit, secured bail after his arrest in London. Dunn, known online as StaccOverflow, is accused of draining nearly $2 million from the Solana-based memecoin marketplace on May 16th. However, in a surprising twist, Dunn isn’t pleading innocence. Instead, he’s claiming the real crime lies with Pump […]
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Digital currency exchange ShapeShift lost as much as $230,000 in three separate thefts over the course of a month, according to an incident report prepared by the service and obtained by CoinDesk. The report comes days after ShapeShift was taken offline following a then-undetailed security incident that resulted in the loss of funds held in the exchange’s connected wallets. ShapeShift later said that it believed the theft was an inside job. According to the report, that employee stole $130,000 from ShapeShift in mid-March. The employee, who was not identified, later sold sensitive security....
As the affair of Satoshi Nakamoto's email hijacking drifted further toward farce today, an older story re-emerged as observers noted similarities between current events and an attempt to hijack bitcoin evangelist Roger Ver's online identities in May. No details of Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity have yet emerged from the latest incident, and the 'ransom' bitcoin address his alleged email hacker posted online seems to have stalled at only 1.55 BTC of its 25 BTC target (see image below). New identity hunt. With Satoshi's identity apparently safe once more, attention has turned to that of....
Back in April, Erik Voorhees explained to Bitcoin.com the whole story of the ShapeShift hack with the “Looting of the Fox” and followed up with us in an interview about the situation. Now, the coins stolen by a hacker who collaborated with a rogue ShapeShift employee have left their original wallet, according to blockchain explorers. ShapeShift’s Stolen....
Earlier today a user under the handle of “daoattacker” came to the DAO slack channel and seemingly gave away 6.37 bitcoin. I was preparing to write an article on an alleged statement from the DAO attacker, so when I checked the slack channel the giveaway was just ending, but everyone was posting their bitcoin address. I was not sent any bitcoin or any other currency nor did I request through address posting, but I asked the alleged attacker some questions. The following has been modified only cosmetically – to add capitalization at beginning of sentences and punctuation at the end: Andrew....