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Finance

DeFi Lender bZx Suffers Hack for Reported $55M

bZx tweeted that a private key controlling the protocol’s deployment on Polygon and Binance Smart Chain was breached.

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Finance

Identity Thieves Exploit El Salvador’s Chivo Bitcoin Wallet’s Setup Process

Hundreds of Salvadorans say hackers opened Chivo Wallets with their ID numbers to claim the $30 bitcoin incentive dangled by Nayib Bukele’s government.

Un cajero automático Chivo en San Salvador, El Salvador (Camilo Freedman/APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images)

Tech

$139M BXH Exchange Hack Was the Result of Leaked Admin Key

The hack might have been the work of one of BXH’s own employees, CEO says.

Hackers Break Into Thousands of  Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals

Finance

Mt. Gox Rehabilitation Plan Worth Billions in Compensation Approved; Finalization to Follow

Creditors should be able to register to receive their funds once the plan is finalized next month.

Mt. Gox creditors (Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

$22M Drained From Compound Contract That Was Hit for $80M Last Week

About $66 million – and counting – was recently added to the still vulnerable contract, thus making more funds available for exploit.

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Finance

Coinbase Multi-Factor Authentication Hack Affects at Least 6,000 Customers

A flaw allowed hackers to get customers’ SMS two-factor authentication code and break into their accounts.

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Tech

Kraken Reveals Security Vulnerabilities in Bitcoin ATMs

The machines’ manufacturer has released patches to mend the problem, but more revisions may be needed.

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Tech

Bitcoin.org Website Inaccessible After Being Hacked by Apparent Giveaway Scam

The site could not be opened as of 05:44 UTC Thursday, after falling victim earlier in the day to an attack claiming it would double funds sent to it.

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Finance

Cross-Chain Protocol PNetwork Loses $12M in Hack

The company said that it had identified the bug that the hacker exploited and fixed it.

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Finance

$3M in Ether Stolen From SushiSwap’s MISO Launchpad

An auction on the DeFi exchange’s launchpad was attacked on Thursday.

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