Hackers:  Crypto exchange Bittrex is being sued over a SIM swap that netted criminals 100 bitcoin, currently worth nearly $1 million.  The case resembles other recent high-profile heists in which a hacker seizes control of a victim’s cell phone to then loot online crypto accounts: the swap was from cellular carrier AT&T, money was taken […]

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Hackers:  Hackers have compromised the website of the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, and demanded ransom in Bitcoins.  The city announced the hack on its official Twitter account on Oct. 25. The city wrote that it had “detected a network breach which resulted in unauthorised access to its information systems.” As a result, the breach […]

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Hackers:  California resident Seth Shapiro has filed a lawsuit against wireless service giant AT&T alleging that its employees helped to perpetrate a SIM-swap which resulted in the theft of over $1.8 million in cryptocurrencies.  The complaint filed on Oct. 17 claims that Shapiro is “a two-time Emmy Award-winning media and technology expert, author, and adjunct […]

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Hackers:  A victim of a Muhstik Ransomware attack paid in bitcoin to unlock his files just to strike back and hack his hackers. In turn, he released nearly 3,000 decryption keys for other victims, along with free decryption software.  German programmer Tobias Frömel was forced to pay 0.09 BTC after attackers hacked into one of […]

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Hackers:  The hacker who stole 17 Ethereum domain names during the Ethereum Name Service’s auction decided to return them all.  On Oct. 4, digital-collectibles marketplace OpenSea said that all of the stolen ENS names were returned successfully and that bidding on domain names will restart again in the coming weeks.   In the beginning of September, […]

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Hackers:  North Korea has denied a recent U.N. report suggesting it was behind major hacks of banks and cryptocurrency exchanges that reaped around $2 billion for the nation’s weapons programs.  Reported by news sources on Sunday that a statement from the National Coordination Committee of the DPRK for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of […]

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Hackers:  If the CEO of two multi-billion-dollar companies can get hacked, you can too. Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, had his account “compromised,” acting as a reminder to people at high risk of hacking, such as Bitcoin holders, should be especially security conscious.  Twitter Comms, an official communication channel for the social media […]

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