WazirX Hack: X Users Raise Alarm Over Scam Email
In the last day, X users have raised concern over a scam email following the recent million-dollar hack of the cryptocurrency exchange WazirX. This development comes as the management of WazirX rolls out several measures to recover the stolen funds. Related Reading: Fallout From WazirX’s $235M Exploit: Crypto Exchange Files Police Complaint Malicious Actors Exploit […]
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After being hit by a massive hack that resulted in the loss of $235 million for its investors on Thursday, India-based cryptocurrency exchange WazirX has taken immediate steps to mitigate the damage and filed a police complaint to recover the stolen funds. WazirX Launches Legal Pursuit In a recent update on the situation, WazirX published […]
Changpeng Zhao (CZ), CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance mentioned that customers who have crypto on WazirX should transfer it to Binance’s platform. He stated in a Tweet that, If you have funds on WazirX, you should transfer it to Binance. Simple as that. We could disable WazirX wallets on a tech level, but we can’t/won’t […]
The crypto asset exchange Wazirx is following Binance’s move by delisting a number of stablecoins and automatically converting them to BUSD at a 1:1 ratio. Wazirx customers have until September 23 to withdraw their stablecoins if they don’t want the funds converted.
Wazirx Plans to Drop 3 Stablecoins and Auto-Convert Them to BUSD by October 5
During the first week of September, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trade volume, Binance, revealed it would be dropping a number of stablecoins. Binance also noted at the time, that customers had a certain....
The CEO of Bitcoin merchant services industry leader BitPay has suffered a phishing scam that cost the company 5,000 bitcoins or over US$1.8 million, reports the Atlanta Business Chronicle The scam occurred last December and the target was BitPay’s chief financial officer, Bryan Krohn. It all started when Krohn received an email, allegedly from an online digital currency publication looking for commentary on a document about the Bitcoin industry. This was an email sent from a hacker who had taken over a computer. The hacker sent Krohn to a website where Krohn is alleged to have given the....
After a major leak of email and personal information earlier this year, Ledger customers are experiencing a surge in phishing attempts. Phishing attempts and scams against Ledger wallet owners are on the increase with one such scam netting more than 1,150,000 XRP from its victims. The scam used a phishing email that directed users to a fake version of the Ledger website that substituted a homoglyph in the URL — in this case a letter that looked like the letter ‘e’ but wasn’t. On the fake site, victims were fooled into downloading malware posing as a security update which drained the....