Last month, the South Korean exchange Bithumb lost about $13 million worth of cryptocurrency to hackers. Now, South Korea’s National Police Agency has seized an external server believed to be associated with the attack.
Electrum servers have been under a sustained Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack since April 7, 2019. An Electrum developer speculated that the attack may be a retaliation.
The Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has launched a Bitcoin over-the-counter (OTC) trading service, 15 months after it lost $532 million in XEM through a hack.
A Chinese security service provider has issued a warning that a large number of crypto exchanges have been targeted by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus.
The Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx has announced a security breach to its users via its official Telegram channel, along with a list of wallet addresses suspected of containing stolen funds.
The Tokyo District Court has found Mark Karpeles, the former head of now-defunct Bitcoin exchange platform Mt. Gox, guilty of record tampering but innocent on other charges related to embezzlement and breach of trust.
The New Zealand-based crypto asset exchange Cryptopia has made their assessment of a January hack, claiming that up to 9.4 percent of all their assets were stolen.
The company had reportedly lost $26 million as a result of theft and the subsequent bankruptcy declaration. Coinbin’s CEO Park Chan-kyu claims that the move was “due to a rise in debt following an employee’s embezzlement.”
Bitfinex said that U.S. federal law enforcement informed them in November of last year that it had obtained access to some of the cryptocurrency funds stolen when the exchange was hacked.
SIM swappers are known to target high-security online domains such as social media accounts, email addresses, bank accounts and cryptocurrency wallets.
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