Tag: "breach"
France Arrests Duo in $9M Platypus Flash Loan Exploit
French authorities have reportedly seized around $220,000 worth of cryptocurrency as part of the arrest of the two individuals suspected of being involved in the attack on Platypus. It’s worth noting that USDC, USDT, and BUSD are all stablecoins that are pegged to the value of fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar, with the aim […]
Robinhood Data Breach Exposes Data of 5M Users
The online stock trading platform Robinhood recently announced that it had suffered a data breach, exposing over five million of its users’ Email addresses, and two million of its users’ full names. The data breach reportedly occurred when an unauthorized party impersonated an authorized party to a Robinhood employee by phone and demanded ransom for […]
Coinbase Suffers From Large-scale Phishing Campaign
The Cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase recently disclosed that over 6,000 of its users’ accounts had been maliciously accessed following an email phishing campaign. The breaches began somewhere between march and may of 2021, and consisted of hackers composing emails to mass amounts of people that resulted in the victims giving up email addresses, passwords, and […]