Anonymous hacker served with restraining order via NFT
International law firm Holland & Knight served a defendant in a hacking case with an NFT that was created and airdropped by its asset recovery team. Law firms Holland & Knight and Bluestone have served a defendant in a hacking case with a temporary restraining order through a nonfungible token, marking the first known legal process to be facilitated by an NFT.The so-called “service token” or “service NFT” was served to an unnamed defendant in a hacking case involving LCX, a Liechtenstein-based cryptocurrency exchange that was hacked in January for almost $8 million. As Cointelegraph....
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Coming every Saturday, Hodlers Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This Week Anonymous hacker served with restraining order via NFTIn whats perhaps an industry first, an anonymous defendant in an exchange-hacking legal case has received a temporary restraining order via NFT. The defendant is part of legal proceedings surrounding the January 2022 LCX exchange hack. Two legal firms served....
Anonymous keeps its promise by renewing its attack on the cybersecurity firewalls of Russia’s Central Bank. According to various news sources, the international hacker collective Anonymous claims to have hacked Russia’s Central Bank and is threatening to leak 35,000 files including “secret agreements” within the next 48 hours. A group associated with the international hacktivist […]
With recent news that the highly-valuable bitcoins.com domain name was going up for auction, many start-ups and entrepreneurs may have seen an acquisition as nothing short of beneficial. We're learning however, that a Judge's ruling may derail the auction - which presently holds a reserve price of a whopping $750,000. This particular case involves CoinLab, a former Mt. Gox partner, who last year sued the company for $75 million for breach of contract. On July 22nd, a U. S. District Court of Seattle Judge granted a temporary restraining order against Tibanne - Mt. Gox's parent company, also....
HashFast issued a response to the Temporary Restraining Order via its blog, claiming that the plaintiff in question has never purchased any products from the company. The plaintiff, Cypher Enterprises, has in turn denied this and posted response to the bitcointalk forums here and here. Obviously this is a matter for lawyers to negotiate and possibly a judge to decide, so CoinDesk will not be updating this page any further. Feel free to read the backgrounds from both sides' perspectives, and remember that honesty, transparency, and open communications channels are always the best way to....
The international hacktivist collective known as Anonymous has vowed to attack Russian government websites over the recent Ukraine invasion. So far Anonymous says that it hacked the Russian Ministry of Defense database and various state-operated television channels in Russia. Additionally, a spokesperson from Russia Today (RT) said that after Anonymous’ recent statement, RT websites were inundated with DDoS attacks.
Anonymous Aims to Laser-Kill Russian Government Websites
The decentralized international collective Anonymous wants to troll Vladimir Putin and the Russian....