The late tech entrepreneur John McAfee's X account is suspected to have been hacked. The attacker pretended to be McAfee and claimed to be "back" and posted the address of the token contract. Users should be vigilant. In 2021, cryptocurrency advocate and father of antivirus software John McAfee committed suicide in a Spanish prison.
CoinMarketCap's official X account is suspected of being hacked, and contract address information has been released. Users should be aware of the risks.
As the hacked WazirX was undergoing a workout, its digital hosting partner Liminal issued a statement addressing the alleged security bugs. On October 22, Liminal issued an update responding to WazirX's alleged "disinformation campaign" and clarifying some information about its role in the incident. Despite blaming Liminal for the $235 million breach in July, WazirX continues to use its digital hosting service, and WazirX holds more than 175 million on its platform.
The Lego Group, the toymaker, has removed a "Lego Coin" token scam that briefly appeared on its homepage after it was hacked on October 5.
India's Supreme Court's YouTube channel was hacked to promote a scam involving the XRP cryptocurrency instead of the usual live hearings. The hack caused the channel to temporarily shut down, but service was resumed later in the day. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse responded by condemning the exploitation of cryptocurrency users.
According to Beosin Alert monitoring, the Indodax exchange was hacked, and the hackers profited about $17 million in crypto assets. Beosin's brief analysis of the incident is as follows: Attack method: The attacker gained access to the Indodax exchange hot wallet through unknown means and used this permission to transfer a large number of assets to multiple addresses on the Ethereum, Polygon, and Optimism chains, most of which were exchanged for ETH on the Ethereum chain. Affected blockchains: E...
WazirX, an Indian crypto trading platform that was previously hacked, said the reason for applying to the Singapore High Court for a suspension order was to have breathing room to finalize a resolution for restructuring and compensation, and that it would seek to negotiate with potential investors during the application.
French football superstar Mbappe X account was hacked and released the token MBAPPE, the tweet has been deleted. The market value of MBAPPE tokens rushed to tens of millions of market value in a few minutes and quickly returned to zero. A user bought 2 SOL (about $286) and sold it at a high point for a profit of about 1398 SOL (about $200,000).
According to Shield, 32.50 million stolen NXRAs have been burned after the Nexera was hacked. Yesterday, Nexera announced that the team is investigating a vulnerability involving smart contracts containing NXRA tokens. The results of the investigation have not yet been finalized.
According to Cyvers Alerts, Dough Finance has sent an on-chain message to the hackers urging them to discuss the next steps to resolve the issue. They asked the hackers to email them or return the funds by 23:00 UTC on July 15, 2024 or face legal action. Previously, it was reported that potentially suspicious activity related to Dough Finance was detected, with losses of 1.81 million dollars.
The X account of American actress Sydney Sweeney was hacked with posts promoting the cryptocurrency named after her, which has since been deleted. The Solana-based token SWEENEY amassed more than $10 million in trading volume within two hours of its launch on July 2, thanks to multiple promotional posts from Sweeney's X account. The price of SWEENEY fell nearly 90% in just over an hour starting at 6:15pm UTC, but has since rebounded.
The ATVI coin really is live on Solana, but it is not an official token of Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard—despite the tweets.